Microsoft latest endeavor into the AI-powered chatbot space has proven that the company is still grappling with the inherent challenges of the technology, such as curation, biasness, and accuracy.
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Microsoft has announced that its Chinese chatbot, Xiaoice, is getting spun off into a separate company. Harry Shum, who led Microsoft's AI efforts until recently, will be the company's chairman.
Microsoft has announced its acquisition of Berkeley-based Semantic Machines with the goal of bolstering its conversational artificial intelligence efforts and help bots have a more natural dialogue.
Microsoft's personal digital assistant is much more than a personality: the driving force behind the service is a complex network or smart algorithms that create the personality.