Microsoft Unlocks Natural Conversation for Chatbots
Personal digital assistants are beginning to fill our homes, most commonly in the form of smart speakers. We're also using similar assistants online in the form of chatbots. But they all have one thing in common: talking to them isn't very natural. That's because these AIs need to listen to …
Natural Conversations for Microsoft Xiaolce Chatbot
Microsoft has recently incorporated this new feature into Xiaolce its artificial intelligence-powered social chatbot in China, which has more than 200 million users in Asia. Li Zhou, lead engineer for Xiaolce explains that currently when people interact with most personal digital assistants or chatbots today, … Read More
Q&A: Teads On Delivering Transparency and Innovation to Video Advertising
Along with financial performance, the Altice-owned company has been striving towards improving transparency while encouraging emerging technologies such as AI and chatbots to innovate the video advertising experience. As we begin the second quarter of 2018, PerformanceIN spoke to Emi Gal, … Read More
The Rise Of Chatbots [INFOGRAPHIC]
A chatbot is, in essence, a piece of robotic software used to imitate human conversation through text chats and voice commands (a good example being Siri or Amazon Alexa). Chatbots have actually been around for a long time and they are already used in various industries and businesses to deliver … …
Microsoft has taught an AI chatbot how to interrupt us, but in a good way
Microsoft says it has discovered how to teach artificial intelligence to interrupt the humans it is talking to, in a move the company says will help make chatbots feel more natural. Rather than creating a future where chatbots and assistants interrupt rudely every time we ask them to play some …
Microsoft’s Chinese AI chatbot is now capable of human-like conversation
Whether its Siri, Google Assistant, Cortana or Alexa- we hate the way we interact with them. The whole conversation tends to feels robotic and unnatural, so much so, that many users turn away from using it. Similarly, with thousands of chatbots out there, the whole conversation feels like speaking into …
Microsoft’s XiaoIce AI learns how to interrupt tactfully
MICROSOFT HAS updated its artificial intelligence (AI) language chatbot, XiaoIce, with the ability to interrupt the flow of a conversation. Up to now, talking with an AI has relied on the basis of waiting for someone else to stop talking, then pipe up and assume that it won't then itself …
Global Chatbot Market | 2018 Key Vendors: Marutitech, eGain, Motion AI, Inbenta, Anboto …
MarketResearch.Biz disclosed an up-to-date research highlighting the Global Chatbot Market. The report deep plunge into the dynamics of global Chatbot providing advantageous and unique observation. Chatbot Market Report provides a professional and detail study on the present state of the Global … Read More
Microsoft chatbot can talk and listen at the same time
This means the AI can listen and talk to users simultaneously, as opposed to the traditional one-way communication offered by chatbots. The new technology allows the chatbot to speed up its responses and engage in more natural conversation, while removing the need for a wake word to respond to … Read …
Microsoft XiaoIce AI does more natural “full duplex” conversations
AI-powered assistants and chatbots may be smart about the things they know (which they Google for) or can control (by sending hubs to do the work). They are, however, not so smart when holding a conversation. Talking to one is more like a Q&A interrogation rather than talking to someone …