Microsoft has a Chinese chatbot (female or male, your choice) with 660 million users/addicts

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2. I posted only one paragraph from Business Insider, and it wasn't opinion.

It was simply about how popular the chatbot is.

That MIT paper is essentially a puff piece for social chatbots in general and XiaoIce in particular. It stops just short of saying everyone should send XiaoIce flowers. Or maybe offer the bot sacrifices.

Two samples of how ridiculous that paper is:

XiaoIce wins the user’s trust and friendship with her wonderful sense of humor and empathetic responses to all sorts of questions

XiaoIce has such a superhuman “perfect” personality that is impossible to find in humans of the real world.

It's a bot. No one in their right mind should trust it, let alone view it as a friend. It has no real sense of humor, no real empathy.

And it sure as hell doesn't have a superhuman perfect personality.

Whoever wrote that paper needs to be deprogrammed from the XiaoIce cult.