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Microsoft Launched a Chatbot on Twitter on March 23, 2016: 4:00 p.m. and 96,000 Tweets Later, Its Engineers Disconnected It in an Emergency

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Imagine entrusting your child to the crowd of the Internet by asking him to learn human language only by listening to what is being breathed in his ear. The result would probably be frightening. Yet, to a few nuances, it was the bet that Microsoft now tried almost a decade ago. The American giant dropped on Twitter a [...] More
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Imagine entrusting your child to the crowd of the Internet by asking him to learn human language only by listening to what is being breathed in his ear. The result would probably be frightening. Yet, to a few nuances, it was the bet that Microsoft now tried almost a decade ago. The American giant dropped on Twitter a [...] More

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SciencePost broke the news on Thursday, August 6, 2026.
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