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butthurt [soylentnews.org] writes:

The Independent [independent.co.uk] reports that Microsoft Corp. has restarted Tay [wikipedia.org], its chat bot which interacted with people and other bots via Kik [wikipedia.org], GroupMe [wikipedia.org] and Twitter. Tay attracted 213,000 followers on Twitter before being turned off in the wake of controversial remarks regarding cannabis. Tay now has a Snapchat account [snapchat.com].

At its Build 2016 conference, the company announced that it has released Bot Builder SDK, part of its [github.com]Bot Framework [botframework.com] in which Tay was coded, under an MIT-style licence [github.com]. The software is capable of communicating via SMS, Skype, Slack [wikipedia.org] and Office 365 mail.

An online petition on change.org [change.org] calling on Microsoft "to treat Tay as an equal" received over 7800 votes.

related story: Microsoft Snuffs Out AI Twitter Bot After Offensive Tweets [soylentnews.org]

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