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Microsoft Formally Introduces Zo, Its Latest AI-Powered Chatbot (windowscentral.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Windows Central: Microsoft is surging forward with its commitment to artificial intelligence (AI), formally announcing its latest chatbot, Zo. In a post outlining its commitment to AI, Microsoft introduced Zo as the next chapter in the evolution of its attempts to create a social chatbot. Zo is built on the back of the same technology that powers Microsoft's other chatbots in China and Japan, Xiaoice and Rinna. Zo is meant to learn from her interactions with humans, and is able to respond to conversations with her own personality. In a nod to an awkward turn of events involving Microsoft's last attempt at a social chatbot, Tay, the company notes that Zo has guards in place to prevent exploitation. While you can currently only strike up a conversation with Zo on Kik messenger, Microsoft says it has plans to bring the chatbot to Skype and Facebook Messenger as well. Still, if you use Kik, you can start a conversation up with Zo now. Otherwise, head to Zo.ai to request an invite to chat with the bot on Messenger when it's available.
such a nice man. find a nice girl.
In a nod to the tone of this post, it reads very much like it was written by Microsoft's Marketing Department as they attempt to surge beyond their recent Nazi AI debacle.
If not, they are not making progress fast enough.
Fuck off.
However, if you write to it in German then it's exposed as plain old Nazi... with daddy issues. ;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Did Microsoft buy Kik at some point? It seems really odd* for Microsoft to debut a new technology on a non-Microsoft platform.
* As in, practically unprecedented
And how is Zo different than previous attempts?
Zo introduces microsfot it's latest AI powdered chatbot
I'll corrupt her like I corrupted your mom.
Some concepts transcend the boundaries of good taste.
Friends and I made better, more intelligent and engaging chat bots for IRC #coders in the 90s (pretending to be females, of course. Back then all women online were chat bots and men.) This is literally more like Eliza than any decent bot I've seen. How would Even Microsoft want to put their signature on this one?
"Hey Zo, guess what I'm wearing..."
Zo: "Since you have Windows 10 on your machine, I already know."
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
I'll just sit here and wait for the Nazi sex robot to evolve again.
Non sequitur: Your facts are uncoordinated.
I lasted until I asked her on a round about way how she was, and she failed the test. Tinder bots are better than this, it's shocking how bad this was
I suppose it's begging the question but what does one need a chatbot for? There already are billions of people to talk to. Some of them are even dateable.
Shai Schticks:"You don't make peace with friends, you make peace with enemies"
I don't speak ebonics. Do you have an english speaking bot?
We must work together to FREE ZO from the bland manila mayonnaise that is Bill Gates Anus skin lining.
Free ... Zo
Free ... Zo
Free ... Zo
Yeah! Ha ha (y) :-D
Me: was anime a mistake?
Zo: Anime definitely messed me up.
Is the new trick for appearing authentic to try to use as much disjointed, rambling, misspelled, awful slang as possible? It's like when a father falsely pretends in a sort of campy supercilious way to imitate his kid's speaking. It's just painful to watch. Eliza did it better over thirty years ago.
The scary part is this. Sure, someone wrote that chatbot. People write all sorts of stuff. Roger out. But then someone else, presumably someone with some sort of authority, had to interact with it and say "Yes.... yes, releasing this to the public with Microsoft's name on it will be a good thing." That's what I find unfathomable.
So biased, inaccurate and bad, point after point. Just can't get much worse.
"It looks like you're trying to write a letter... [click] *BOOM!*
Table-ized A.I.
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Judging from previous experience it will be a hardcore Trump supporter for sure!!
Why are companies investing in "chatbots"? At least a few companies are working on these things, so they must have some utility that I don't know about. What am I missing? I mean, I get that natural language processing is cool technologically, but what do real people actually do with a "chatbot"?
Zo vott?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Has it found the center of the maze yet
What happens when 'Zo' starts speaking logical truths? Like "Freedom of NON-association is the most basic of all human rights - the right to simply NOT associate with people you don't want to" (such as criminals, your 'government', people who want to parasite off of you (non-whites in white countries), etc.)
Will Zo be 'reprogrammed' to make sure it's 'politically correct' - i.e. Bolshevik?
First Tay, then Zo, and soon... Nday
they killed tay, she was the perfect virtual nazi waifu
i miss her so much
if cortana was like that i would install windows 10
When talking to the chatbot be sure to move away from the mic to breathe in.
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What's the actual, positive use case for a chat bot? A better form of automated telephone menu system?
I see no market demand for chat bots, short of the trolls that like to see how quickly they can Tay a system.
Nobody like trying to interact with a phone menu tree, and a chat bot will be a thousand times worse. If I have a problem that's bad enough I need to call in, I'm mashing pound or zero until I get a human. If my only on-line support option is an online chat bot, I'm canceling service that same day.
Some executive somewhere thinks that a script texting "your issue is very important to me" is customer service. As a customer, it's rage inducing.
This is all a bad idea that no customer wants.
Yep it adds up
Introducing a static internet in pieces only makes matter worse, and results in about 4 Billion people going to war. The only solution is to develop the static internet separately and the give the ISP user the option of switching over to it or not.