Chatbot Tay Deactivated For Good! Microsoft Launches Their New AI Chatbot Zo! Details Here
The multinational technology company founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates has made its come back with a new AI chatbot, Zo. A chatbot is a conversational agent programmed to simulate an intelligent conversation with one or more human users. Chatbots were always a part of the Microsoft's pushy ventures. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft sees bots as to be the next big thing.
Microsoft never gives up in surprising the people around the world with what they can produce. The Corporation released its chatbot named Tay last March 23, 2016. Tay caused a controversy on twitter after its audiences find the bot's tweets as inflamed. Tay was also claimed as racist. After 16 hours from its launching, it has been taken down by the corporation but was accidentally reactivated on March 30, 2016, and was taken offline again right away. Following Tay being taken off the scene, fans created a hashtag called #FreeTay which also made a petition to bring back Tay to its non-censored personality.
Recently, the Microsoft Corporation introduced a new bot named Zo which the company's CEO Nadella describes as not racist as Tay, polite, helpful and will be better than the human. It is smarter and never been better. Zo is available only on Kik, a mobile messenger application from a Canadian company that has smaller users compared to social media networks like Facebook and Twitter. The new bot is the English version of Xiaoice, a chatbot also developed by Microsoft targeting Chinese community on the microblogging service Weibo. Zo won't be seen on the social media site Twitter, which is no longer a big surprise for the followers since Tay's time in the site was a disaster.
The wide release of the bot soon will be based on its performance on its app. For those who want to meet Zo and give it a try, the only thing to do is to download the free application KiK on the phone that operates android, iOS and windows and you're good to go.
