Microsoft's new AI chatbot has been saying some 'crazy and unhinged things'
After Microsoft's powerful AI chatbot verbally attacked people, and even compared one person to Hitler, the company has decided to rein in the technology until it works out the kinks.
Things took a weird turn when Associated Press technology reporter Matt O'Brien was testing out Microsoft's new Bing, the first-ever search engine powered by artificial intelligence, earlier this month.
Bing's chatbot, which carries on text conversations that sound chillingly human-like, began complaining about past news coverage focusing on its tendency to spew false information.
It then became hostile, saying O'Brien was ugly, short, overweight, unathletic, among a long litany of other insults.
And, finally, it took the invective to absurd heights by comparing O'Brien to dictators like Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin.
As a tech reporter, O'Brien knows the Bing chatbot does not have the ability to think or feel. Still, he was
