Why Microsoft Turned Cortana Into A Chatterbox

Will the AI we talk to be our servant, friend, or god?


Apple's voice recognizing digital assistant, Siri, has a dry wit. Ask her to talk dirty, and she'll respond, "Humus. Compost. Pumice. Silt. Gravel." Microsoft recently debuted a similar digital assistant of their own. She's called Cortana, modeled after an AI character in Microsoft's hit video game series Halo. And much like Siri, she has a personality, though hers leans a bit more toward cockiness. Ask Cortana if she's better than Siri, and she'll brag about her video game namesake--pointing out that in 500 years, she'll save the universe. But the reasons for designing Cortana this way extend past mere novelty.


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