As the tweets below show, Tay isn't afraid to crack some jokes and use millennial slang. She was created by Microsoft's Technology and Research and Bing teams, using a mix of public data, artificial intelligence and eccentric staff contributions. "Public data that's been anonymized is Tay's primary data source," Microsoft explains on the Tay website. "That data has been modeled, cleaned and filtered by the team developing Tay."

A word of warning: Microsoft says Tay will use your conversations to "search on your behalf" and "create a simple profile" in order to personalize her responses. Your data and messages might also be kept for up to a year in order to improve Tay's overall abilities. Sounds awfully similar to Her...