Xiaoice is Microsoft's latest piece of artificial intelligence. She has a 'cute' voice, can instantly comment on weather data and big news events, and now, she has a job on morning TV. The Chinese ...

Microsoft has only applied the tech to a "companionship" chatbot called XiaoIce (pronounced shiow-ice), a chatbot Microsoft introduced in 2014 and is very popular … in Asia. "Xiaoice delivers ...

In two experiments, East Asians had more positive views of human-chatbot interactions than European Americans did. Might this tendency stem from Eastern religious traditions?

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The bot, called Xiaoice, has more than 20 million registered users. Like in the movie "Her," where the main character falls in love with with a Siri-esque operating system, people are using ...

In China, an AI companion called XiaoIce has more than half a billion registered users, making it the most popular social chatbot in the world.[1] How can we explain this fascinating difference?