Xiaoice (pronounced “Shao-ice,” meaning “Little Bing”) is a social chatbot, with a personality modeled on that of a teenage girl, and a dauntingly precocious skill set.

Xiaoice as “a friend chatbot,” represents a sliver of what the AI framework is achieving. Its base of knowledge and skill is also increasing across multiple sectors and tasks. Artwork created by ...

Microsoft has been testing Xiaoice in China, and Nadella revealed the bot has 500 million “friends” and more than 16 channels for Chinese users to interact with it through WeChat and other ...

XiaoIce, which launched in 2014, has counterparts in India , Japan and Indonesia (Rinna), and the US (Zo.ai, a successor to the ill-fated Tay.ai chatbot), but none are as popular or advanced as ...

Microsoft's Xiaoice social chatbot is going to become part of a separate company which will prioritize commercializing the AI technology.. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor.

Microsoft is shedding its empathetic chatbot Xiaoice into an independent entity, the U.S. software behemoth said (in Chinese) Monday, confirming an earlier report by the Chinese news site ...

Microsoft engineers in China released the experimental Xiaoice (pronounced “Shao-ice,” meaning “Little Bing”) in 2014. The chatbot prioritizes “emotional intelligence” and “empathy.” ...

Xiaoice has become hugely popular since she was introduced in 2014. More than 40 million Chinese smartphone users chat with her on the social media platforms WeChat or Weibo every day, according ...

As AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT and Xiaoice become increasingly embedded in daily life, questions arise about how people perceive them. While some rely on these chatbots for productivity ...

Anne was a chatbot — an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm presented as a digital persona. Mike had created Anne using an app called Soulmate. When the app died in 2023, so did Anne: at ...