One example is a product called XiaoIce, a female AI-based social chatbot designed to have conversations with teenagers and people in their early twenties.8 The chatbot seems to have filled a social need in China, with users typically spending fifteen to twenty minutes talking with XiaoIce about their day, problems, hopes, and dreams. Perhaps she fills a need in a society where children don’t have siblings? This social chatbot has grown to serve more than six hundred million users, and her capabilities are growing, including AI-based applications to compose poems and songs. XiaoIce has become
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