Microsoft is testing out new AI personalities on its Bing search engine as it looks to make conversations with the virtual assistant more natural and engaging. The company recently announced that it has begun experimenting with longer chat sessions, allowing users to have a more in-depth conversation with the AI.
The idea behind this move is to create an experience that feels more like talking to a real person than simply typing in keywords into a search box. To do this, Microsoft has developed two new AI personalities – “Jill” and “Eddie” – which are designed to be friendly and conversational when interacting with users.
In addition, Microsoft has also added some features that will help keep conversations flowing naturally by providing context for each response. For example, if you ask Jill or Eddie about something they don’t know much about, they’ll suggest related topics or provide additional information so you can continue your conversation without having to start from scratch every time.
This isn’t the first time Microsoft has experimented with artificial intelligence (AI) personalities on its products; back in 2017, it introduced Zo — an AI chatbot — on Skype and other messaging platforms. However, these latest experiments take things one step further by introducing longer chats between users and their virtual assistants. This could potentially open up many possibilities for how people interact with technology in the future—from shopping online to booking flights or even just asking questions about anything under the sun!
The development of these new AI personalities marks an important milestone for Microsoft’s efforts towards creating smarter digital assistants that can better understand human language and respond accordingly—something that was previously only possible through complex algorithms or manual coding processes. It also shows how far we’ve come since the early days of voice recognition software where accuracy was often low due to limited understanding of natural language processing (NLP).
By introducing longer chats between humans and machines powered by these advanced NLP techniques, Microsoft hopes not only improve user experiences but also pave way for deeper insights into customer behavior patterns which could then be used for targeted marketing campaigns or personalized recommendations based on individual preferences over time.
At present though, there are still some limitations when it comes to using these AI-powered personal assistants such as lack of emotional intelligence which makes them unable recognize subtle nuances in conversations like sarcasm or humor yet; however given enough data points over time machine learning models should eventually become sophisticated enough handle such tasks too eventually making our interactions even more naturalistic than before!
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