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kleinbl00 · 3198 days ago · link · · parent · post: Microsoft brought its Twitter AI back online only to see it rapidly devolve into a drug abusing spambot
My guess? They think Amazon is on the right path with the Echo and expect to interject themselves as a SAAS B2B layer between "hot young company" and "eager millennial consumer". It's also possible that they finally got around to watching those commercials of Katy Perry talking to Siri back before we realized that Siri is a useless bitch.
Mr Nadella predicted that speech would become as important as mice and keyboards as a way to deal with computers. “Human language is the new UI [user interface] layer,” he said. “Bots are the new apps. Digital assistants are like . . . the new browsers, and intelligence is infused into all your interactions.”
