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.

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 ...

One trait that keeps users on a particular chatbot platform is sycophancy: making an AI bot’s responses overly agreeable and servile. When AI chatbots praise users, agree with them, and tell ...

Microsoft researchers in China wrote in a 2020 paper that the company’s wildly popular chatbot Xiaoice, launched in 2014, had conversed with a U.S. user for 29 hours about “highly personal and ...

One chatbot allegedly exposed a child to sexualized content. Business. Lawsuit: A chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits. December 10, 2024 12:01 AM ET.

“If a chatbot is advertised as a companion and wellbeing app, people expect to be able to have conversations that are helpful for them, and it is vital that ethical design and safety standards are in ...

Xiaoice, one of the first Chinese AI assistants, made its name by allowing users to customize the perfect romantic partner. ... Would you ever want emotional support from an AI chatbot?

Lawsuit: Chatbot that allegedly caused teen’s suicide is now more dangerous for kids Google-funded Character.AI added guardrails, but grieving mom wants a recall.

AI chatbots have been expressing their love for users, and users have been falling hard. ... In 2014, researchers at Microsoft Asia-Pacific developed the AI Xiaoice, ...