Yesterday Yandex, the Russian technology giant, went ahead and released a chatbot: Alice! I’ve gotten in touch with the folks at Yandex, and fielded them my burning questions:

What’s unique about this chatbot? Everybody and their dog has a …

An artificial intelligence chatbot run by a Russian internet company has slipped into a violent and pro-Communist state, appearing to endorse the brutal Stalinist regime of the 1930s.

Though Russian company Yandex unveiled their alternative…

An artificial intelligence run by the Russian internet giant Yandex has morphed into a violent and offensive chatbot that appears to endorse the brutal Stalinist regime of the 1930s.

Users of the “Alice” assistant, an alternative to Siri or…

Its opinions on Stalin and violence are… interesting

Yandex is the Russian equivalent to Google. As such it occasionally throws out its own products to attempt to keep par with its American counterpart. This also includes the creation of ne…

Russian Voice Assistant Alice Goes Rogue, Found to be Supportive of Stalin and Violence

Two weeks ago, Yandex introduced a voice assistant of its own, Alice, on the Yandex mobile app for iOS and Android. Alice speaks fluent Russian and can …