The bot, called Xiaoice, has more than 20 million registered users. Like in the movie "Her," where the main character falls in love with with a Siri-esque operating system, people are using ...

There is a global appetite for such digital companionship. Microsoft's digital chatbot Xiaoice has a global fan base of more than 660 million people, many of whom consider the chatbot "a dear ...

In the blog entry, Lee explains that Microsoft's Tay team was trying to replicate the success of its Xiaoice chatbot, which is a smash hit in China with over 40 million users, for an American ...

The commercialisation of AI is particularly difficult, Li Di, CEO of Microsoft AI chatbot spin-off Xiaoice, warned at a forum in December. Wang's focus on hardware, rather than purely software ...