Weekend business update: Microsoft chatbot spews hate-speech, the Apple event, and more

Artificial Intelligence continues to surprise and shock us. Last week, we saw that AI can be better than us at playing Go. This week, Microsoft’s chatbot TayTweets showed us that machine learning can even produce AI’s that are better at hate speech than we are. Microsoft promptly hit the killswitch on that one. Whoops, maybe we ought to stick with non-interactive AI for now. Incidentally, since the beginning of 2016, 39 companies in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning s