From
Max Mut
Kevin Roose is to blame. The columnist of New York Times is at least indirectly responsible for Microsoft stopping the most exciting tech experiment of the past decades after just one week. For a few days earlier, the intelligent chatbot Bing Search had dominated technology news coverage, capturing the imaginations of testers and readers alike. Announced as a revolutionary search engine that answers queries in full sentences instead of just link tips, Bing quickly expressed its own personality with wishes, worries – and fantasies of destruction.