Microsoft launches Bing series of Microsoft Mini Ice

Absrtact: Yesterday, Microsoft released the Bing series of Microsoft Mini ice. The day of the press conference, many people focused on Microsoft internship Product Manager Milk Tea Sister body. The sharp observation is, how does this Microsoft robot come about? What does it have to do with others

Yesterday, Microsoft released the Bing series "Microsoft Mini Ice". The day of the press conference, many people focused on Microsoft internship Product Manager Milk Tea Sister body. The sharp observation is, how does this Microsoft robot come about? What is it different from others? Through communication with senior executives at Microsoft Engineering, Sharp observes that Microsoft hopes to use a robot called ice to export its products to a large audience of micro-users, such as Bing search and The Bing Dictionary, which has helped Microsoft connect directly with users before Microsoft mainly through OEM manufacturers to contact users. Apple's Siri is a completely different path than ice, relying on a massive iphone terminal to connect with the user, without needing other media such as micro-mail. The following is a report of sharp observation:

1, what is Little ice?

Small ice is an artificial intelligence chatting robot based on data mining and voice technology. Microsoft's small ice collection of nearly 700 million internet users over the years accumulated, all the public chat record, relying on Microsoft in large data, natural semantic analysis, machine learning and deep neural network technology accumulation, the collection of 15 million corpus (after the daily net increase of 0.7%), by understanding the context and semantics of dialogue, Achieve a natural interaction beyond simple human-computer questions and answers.

2, why do you do small ice?

The first name of the ice was called Social Helper, which was born in January 2014, a Chinese product that was launched in China and planned to be made globally from China, a product lurkey by the decision. In addition, the Cortana project was personally questioned by Lurkey.

3, what is the function of small ice?

Small ice only on the micro-letter platform on the line, a personal account release. Ordinary user Login micro-letter Add friends, you can communicate with Microsoft robot.

In the micro-credit skills list, users can see that the small ice skills also include small ice known, ice Alert, Bing search, ice jokes, digging, interpreter, barometer, nurturance and other existing functions.

For example, search or ask questions such as basic necessities, and so on, can get very clear feedback. Within Microsoft, a test was done to build a 40-student micro-group, put the ice in the group, and 20 minutes of ice answered 150 questions.

4, what Microsoft can get from the ice

First, Microsoft has further optimized the index of large data in the background by interacting with the user (indexing). The second is the use of Microsoft Search, Bing translation and thesaurus features. Third, Microsoft products have been through the OEM and user interaction, through the robot Microsoft can directly interact with the user. In the first part, Microsoft gets a large number of active users through small ice.

5, Microsoft small ice and Apple Siri contrast

Positioning is different, Apple Siri positioning is a tool-type, I hope users use its function, its stickiness is not high.

Microsoft small Ice also has the concept of tools, but more is chat. Can be used to kill time, such as providing games, divination.