Xiaoice

A conversation with Rinna, the Japanese version of Xiaoice on the messaging app Line, showing text messages and an image of a note sent by her, all in Japanese.
A conversation with Rinna on Line.

Xiaoice (Chinese: 微軟小冰; pinyin: Wēiruǎn Xiǎobīng; literally: "Microsoft Little Ice", IPA [u̯éi̯ɻu̯ânɕi̯âu̯píŋ]) is an advanced natural language chat-bot developed by Microsoft. It is primarily targeted at the Chinese community on the micro blogging service Weibo. The conversation is text based. The system learns about the user and provides natural language conversation. Microsoft gave Xiaoice a compelling personality and sense of “intelligence” by systematically mining the Chinese Internet for human conversations. Because Xiaoice collects vast amounts of intimate details on individuals, the program raises privacy questions.[1]

Platforms, languages and countries

Users can access Xiaoice on various platforms such as Weibo, JD.com, and 163.com. In Japan, Microsoft launched the service with mobile messaging app Line and named the chatbot Rinna. Qi Lu, executive vice president of Microsoft's applications and services group, told media that Microsoft was also developing an English-language version of the chatbot.[2]

Statistics

Xiaoice

Rinna

Privacy

Yao Baogang, the manager of the Microsoft program in Beijing stated, “We don’t keep track of user conversations with Xiaoice. We need to know the question, so we store it, but then we delete it. We don’t keep any of the data. We have a company policy to delete the user data.”

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 Markoff, John; Mozur, Paul (2015-07-31). "For Sympathetic Ear, More Chinese Turn to Smartphone Program". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-10-16.
  2. ↑ "Microsoft’s Chatbot Xiaoice Relaunched with Latest Features". Yibada. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  3. ↑ "Digital Robot ‘XiaoIce’ Voted Most Influential ‘Person’ on Weibo". The Vision Times. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "Rinna's Line profile". Line. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  5. ↑ "りんな (@ms_rinna)". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
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