‘Comfortable, fun, familiar’: Why Microsoft is trying to turn its AI chatbot into a digital friend
Ugh. Article here:
They should give it an avatar like an anthropomorphic talking paper clip or something - that’d be really cool! 
OB
(Anyone who instantly recognizes this, I salute you.)
No, no, and NO.
The Marketing Division of the Microsoft Corporation are a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Stranger
The thread title is a bit misleading, as the plastic pal that’s fun brings up a totally different visual in my mind. And its this one, not the one your dirty minds are thinking about.
I can’t wait to try out their personality prototypes…
Steven Spielberg’s completion of Stanley Kubrick’s unfinished film A.I.. Knew it right off the bat. That’s the “Flesh Fair”
Go stick your head in a . . . I mean share and enjoy! ;-D
AI Chatbot: In time you will come to regard me not only with respect and awe, but with love.
Me: NEVER!
We’re gonna need a bigger wall, cuz I have a list of my own…
Will this be like a 2025 version of Microsoft Word’s Clippy? If so, then no thank you.
Sounds like Microsoft has a solution in search of a problem…