{"id":190600,"date":"2016-12-05T16:56:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T14:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=190600"},"modified":"2016-12-05T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T14:58:00","slug":"microsoft-launches-new-ai-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/190600-microsoft-launches-new-ai-chatbot.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft launches new AI chatbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has a new chatbot in early access, which is currently available on Kik Messenger,\u00a0it calls <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/earlyaccess.zo.ai\" target=\"_blank\">Zo<\/a><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those not on Kik, Microsoft has a signup page to\u00a0request an invitation for early access to Zo.<\/p>\n<p>The early access invitation request\u00a0requires that you provide your email address, Kik and Twitter handles, and state whether you use Facebook Messenger or SnapChat.<\/p>\n<p>Chats with Zo have started to appear online, with the following conversation posted to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyjunk.com\/New+tay+zoai\/funny-pictures\/6109015#15a037_6108571\" target=\"_blank\">FunnyJunk<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Zo:<\/strong> What&#8217;s your deal?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Human:<\/strong> Tell me why does he wear the mask<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zo:<\/strong> did i hear that one right?!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Human:<\/strong> Was getting caught part of your plan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zo:<\/strong> Of coursh.\u00a0Crashing a plane was!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Human:<\/strong> Well tell me, what&#8217;s the next step in your master plan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zo:<\/strong> Crashing the Internet, with no survivors!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Zo-on-crashing-the-Internet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-190610\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Zo-on-crashing-the-Internet.jpg\" alt=\"zo-on-crashing-the-internet\" width=\"320\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Zo-on-crashing-the-Internet.jpg 720w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Zo-on-crashing-the-Internet-242x430.jpg 242w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Zo-on-crashing-the-Internet-640x1138.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Zo-on-Tay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-190608\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Zo-on-Tay.jpg\" alt=\"zo-on-tay\" width=\"320\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Zo-on-Tay.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Zo-on-Tay-242x430.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/185780-what-twitter-would-sound-like-if-it-could-speak.html\">What Twitter would sound like if it could speak<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new chatbot from Microsoft is now in early access on Kik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":190604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,123,40076,40078],"class_list":["post-190600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-zo","tag-zo-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190612,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190600\/revisions\/190612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}