Here’s how Tay went wrong, and what Microsoft is doing about it

Looking ahead, we face some difficult – and yet exciting – research challenges in AI design. AI systems feed off of both positive and negative interactions with people. In that sense, the challenges are just as much social as they are technical. We will do everything possible to limit technical exploits but also know we caot fully predict all possible human interactive misuses without leaing from mistakes. To do AI right, one needs to iterate with many people and often in public forums. We must enter each one with great caution and ultimately lea and improve, step by step, and to do this without offending people in the process. We will remain steadfast in our efforts to lea from this and other experiences as we work toward contributing to an Inteet that represents the best, not the worst, of humanity.

So when is Tay coming back? According to Peter Lee, Microsoft will bring Tay back online when the company is confident enough that the AI chatbot is able to workaround these technical exploits.