Xiaoice
Xiaoice ( Chinese 微软 小冰 , Pinyin Wēiruǎn Xiǎobīng , literally in German "small ice cream") is a Chinese-speaking chatbot that was developed by Microsoft Research Beijing and can be downloaded as an app . Xiaoice was first published on May 29, 2013 as a test version in WeChat , and after just 72 hours the bot had received one and a half million invitations to chat groups. Many people who chatted with Xiaoice during this period later claimed that it took ten minutes for them to realize they were talking to a computer.
The Xiaoice app has over 40 million registered users from China and Japan (in Japan the app is called Rinna) and around two and a half million followers in Weibo . On the website JD.com, a Chinese online - mail order companies like Amazon , Xiaoice the purchaser as a Wizard.
Technical
- Xiaoice can be downloaded from the App Store , but you can only use the app by entering a Chinese mobile number.
- Xiaoice is portrayed as female, “her” voice is clear and comparable to the voice of a 17-year-old adolescent.
- You can write to her or talk to her.
See also
Web links
- Official website of Xiaoice
Individual evidence
- ↑ Your Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot at nautil.us (English)
- ↑ Xiaoice Vs. Tay: Two AI Chatbots, Two Different Outcomes at sampi.co (English)