Modern Hell #26: We Forgot About Tay

What Microsoft's failed 2016 chatbot can teach us about its new AI-powered search tool

“Looking ahead, we face some difficult – and yet exciting – research challenges with AI design,” Peter Lee, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of research and incubations, wrote on the company's blog page in 2016. “AI systems feed off of both positive and negative interactions with people. In that sense, the challenges are just as much social as they …