Microsoft Corporation Artificial Intelligence Chatbot goes Haywire on the Internet

The technology giant has addressed this issue of Al chatbat and apologized publicly for its misconduct.

Microsoft’s artificial intelligence powered chatbot, Tay caused some trouble for the technology company earlier last week. The specific bot apparently messages like a teenage girl and last week it posted some offensive content that it learnt from the users. The chatbot Tay turned into a hate-speech propagating, ‘Hitler-sympathizing’ messaging robot instead which seemed offensive to many.

Users exploited the glitch in the system and took advantage of it which in turn portrayed the chatbot as a hate-speech initiator. Tay made this mistake on the micro-blogging website Twitter, Inc. In a blog post, the technology organization released a statement regarding this misconduct on Tay’s part.

Peter Lee, the corporate vice president at Microsoft Corporation, was the author of the specific post in which he expressed that the management of the tech giant was deeply sorry for the ‘unintended offensive and hurtful’ tweets that were made by its AI powered chatbot. Furthermore, he added that the chatbot’s tweet, in any way, did not represent the technology business and neither did it portrays what the company stands for. In addition to that, he even stated that, the conduct by Tay is not how the company designed it.

The chatbot was officially given permission to interact with users online on Wednesday, it’s built to become smarter by interacting with the millennial users and how they talk and interact with each other online. It has the ability to copy how the users type, their ideas and how they conduct speech. However, this ability to learn from the users led the bot to show a slate of anti-Semitic and hateful comments on the social media website; in addition to that other social media networks were involved in this as well including KiK, Snapchat as well as GroupMe.

In counter the reaction that the tweets created on the Internet, the technology giant deleted the tweets and closed down Tay on Thursday. The company has stated that it will be back on only when the engineers have fixed this problem and when they figure out how to avoid such incidents in the future. The engineer’s first task will be to prevent the bot from getting influenced by the users online so that it doesn’t misrepresent the missions and values of the company.

The Chief corporate VP also stated that this problem occurred despite of the engineers testing the artificial intelligent bot in various scenarios. This problem only surfaced after they made the service live on the internet. He added that even though the company tested it with many types of abuses on the system, it had this issue. 

Microsoft Corporation Finally Updates Internet Explorer

The Windows giant has finally released a fixing patch to make sure all bugs and problems are removed while users browse on the new Windows 10.

Microsoft Corporation’s infamous browser, the Internet Explorer, has again turned out to be troublesome for the users. A couple of weeks ago, the giant introduced the much talked about Windows 10, the new operating system that it had been working on for quite a long time now. However, since the release of the OS, the users have had some serious issues using the new Windows, especially in the giant’s browser. It was believed by the hype created by the software giant that all the previous flaws and faults in the company system will be taken care of in the new OS, but the analysts couldn’t have been more wrong. Even though Microsoft business has been trying to overcome the faults in the browser since a really long time now, it has failed to go the complaints against the browser have come out to be in a large number. The re-launch of the outdated browser along with the original Windows was previously taken as a good step towards competing with Firefox and Chrome, but with the increasing issues being faced, analysts are talking about how this cannot be achieved by the giant anymore. Microsoft software team, however, is reportedly carrying out another small program to fix the errors and issues that are being built up in the recent Windows. The giant came out with a patch on Tuesday, which according to the news is capable of turning down all the problems and faults previously being confronted by the users at large. On the other hand, the bug that was attacking all the Windows users and the latest OS was making the users go over to a website automatically, which was actually a major threat to the personal information of the users. This problem was especially taking place within the Internet Explorer only, which was something that does not annoy the users if they are using browsers like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. The reports of the victims of the virus bugs have also reported that the flashy messages shown on the browser were the real threats to not only the personal information, but were also slammed with a lot of unwanted content on the internet, which turned out to be unavoidable. However, the patch that has been released by the giant will be helping the users in the most convenient of ways. All they have to do is download it or simply update their Windows with the new update being offered by the tech company.