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The Rise of the Chat Bots
Posted in Software on 12th Apr, 2016
by Alex Muller
Chatbots communicate with people in natural language. They are becoming popular and the companies that develop the software behind them are attracting serious venture capital.
In Contrast to Tay, Microsoft's Chinese Chatbot, Xiaolce, Is Actually Pleasant
Posted in Online on 28th Mar, 2016
by Alex Muller
Trolls turned Tay into a monster in less than a day, but China's Xiaolce is a therapeutic A.I.
Microsoft shuts Twitter AI bot after it learns racism from Twitter users
Posted in Software on 25th Mar, 2016
by Alex Muller
Microsoft launched an AI on Twitter for a playful chat with people, only to silence it within 24 hours as users started sharing racist and offensive comments with the bot.
Google's neural network wants to compose email responses for you
Posted in Software on 4th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
The system will use a deep neural network to analyze incoming emails for what information is required to form an appropriate response, and to propose likely replies.
Google is teaching its neural network AI how to chat
Posted in Software on 3rd Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller
Chatbots are notoriously difficult to make work well. But now Googles developed a new conversational AI that uses neural networks to learn. Right now its still quite child-like.