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 ...

Tech companies are offering AI companions as a convenient cure for the loneliness epidemic, but there have been other forms of faux relationships, and they tend to have more to do with ego than heart.

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 ...