Microsoft To Open Xiaoice Bot S Full Duplex Capabilities To Developers
‘Full duplex’ refers to AI’s ability to communicate in both directions simultaneously, such as a phone call. It enables more natural conversation, letting people talk to the chatbot like you would a friend on the phone. Xiaoice has had full verbal conversations with over 600,000 people in China, who were informed that she was a bot. Microsoft AI head Harry Shum says this kind of collaboration is essential, but so is the relationship with developers....