Chat bots http://www.franksworld.com/2017/08/04/facebook-scraps-ai-chatbots-after-they-created-their-own-language/ (going rogue) https://hothardware.com/news/microsoft-zo-chatbot-goes-rogue-with-offensive-speech-tay-ai (seem) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot) (to be the new norm) and it looks like http://gizmodo.com/revolutionary-chatbots-reportedly-go-rogue-get-reeduca-1797533770 (China has two new virtual dissidents).

What’s going on here? Are these bugs in the software? Or are the bots thinking for themselves and drawing their own conclusions for good and for ill?