I saw this on the local news last night and laughed my butt off. Partially due to the reporter constantly referring to a simple chatbot as an “AI,” but mostly due to just how ill-tempered the chatbot has become.

Max’s chat with Microsoft’s artificial intelligence bot more like ‘Mean Girls’ than ‘2001’

If you want to hear an artificial intelligence social bot tell this reporter “screw you,” watch the video above.

Snerk.

An earlier Microsoft attempt at an “AI” Twitter bot quickly became racist. Not because it was programmed that way or actually had feelings one way or the other about the various tribes and breeds of Man, but because it was programmed to “learn” from the people it interacted with… and the people it interacted with were The People Of The Internet, more specifically Twitter-trolls. And as we’ve seen this last quarter century, people love few things better than to turn well-meaning but ill-conceived it of work into piles of smoking wreckage. I suspect the same thing has happened here.