3 days ago Bill Gates officially launched his own WeChat official account (WeChat ID: gatesnotes) and broadcast a short 30 second message to his WeChat followers. Bill’s company Microsoft is actually kicking ass on WeChat, they have several very interesting WeChat accounts including a Chinese virtual girlfriend chatbot. We did a little research into the presence Microsoft and other American tech giants have on China’s …
WeChat’s Virtual Girlfriend App by Microsoft (Xiaobing)
Thousands of men across China describe her as their ‘virtual girlfriend’. Microsoft describe her as being “like an emotional companion”. XiaoBing 小冰 is a female voiced ‘Advanced Natural Language Chat-bot’ service available for free through WeChat. It all sounds a bit like science fiction. The service is eerily similar to the 2013 movie ‘Her’. A film about a man who falls in love …