Twitter bot learns from users to be racist

New York

Microsoft set out to learn about "conversational understanding" by creating a bot designed to have automated discussions with Twitter users, mimicking the language that they use.

What could go wrong? If you guessed "It will probably become really racist," you've clearly spent time on the Internet. Less than 24 hours after the bot, @TayandYou, went online on Wednesday, Microsoft halted posting from the account and deleted several of its most obscene statements.