Xiaoice, a company, has launched its own social platform. Xiaoice Island allows you to create virtual and realistic friends based on artificial intelligence. The inhabitants of the "island" can praise, joke, console or act as an assistant. The application has already been installed on 1 billion gadgets, and in the future the number of virtual people may well exceed the population of the planet.
The AI-powered social networking app was developed by Chinese AI pioneer Xiaoice, which spun off from Microsoft more than a year ago. The AI developed by Xiaoice can compose and phone number list sing songs, draw pictures and edit videos.
The Xiaoice AI system has already created over 17 million virtual characters that are saving Chinese users from loneliness. It is reported that AI-based friends will also move to the Xiaoice Island app.
To some extent, the virtual island functions and works like WeChat, a popular social networking app in China developed by Tencent Holdings. WeChat allows users to interact with artificial intelligence, communicating with it in text, audio and video formats, both in dialogue and in group chat.
“The virtual person will praise you, joke with you, and even create a group chat with other characters to comfort you when you say you’re unhappy,” says Li Di, CEO of Xiaoice.