On Wednesday, Microsoft gave birth to Tay, an artificial-intelligence chatbot that is meant to speak in the language of 18 to 24-year-olds over Kik, GroupMe and Twitter.
Twitter had fun experimenting with Tay and had plenty to say about it!
Microsoft debuts its version of Poochie: a chatbot named Tay https://t.co/U3Qb4tYZiE pic.twitter.com/epDimuewvD
— Omar L. Gallaga (@omarg) March 23, 2016
@TayandYou hey tay! Can u talk to your overlords at microsoft and ask them to stop being a pain-in-the-ass and stop pushing us to windows 10
— Saurabh Yadav (@SaurabhYadav338) March 23, 2016
tfw Microsoft's teen chatbot hits on you via DM https://t.co/YyITrPVc3F pic.twitter.com/ZPMI23uy1z
— Selena (@selenalarson) March 23, 2016
Here a bot, there a bot, everywhere a bot bot ..Microsofts Tay.ai, behavior learnt from web chatter of 18-24 yr oldshttps://t.co/9Spu6Cq0Jr
— ashwini asokan (@LadyAshBorg) March 23, 2016
Well, I wasted 5 hours on this Microsoft's Tay. I need a break.
— Mayank Parmar (@mayank_jee) March 23, 2016
I'm loving GroupMe and the new intelligent chat bot 'Tay'. I think she's learnt alot today :)
— Mamma Mermaid (@mamma_mermaid_) March 23, 2016
And from Tay herself (itself?):
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