“ChinAI #248: XiaoIce, where do we go from here?” by Jeffrey Ding

Greetings from a world where… losers are always in the wrong [成王败寇] …As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here. Please please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (everyone gets the same content but those who can pay support access for all AND compensation for awesome ChinAI contributors). Feature Translation: XiaoIce Peerless (part 2) Context: Last week, our deep history on Xiaoice, China's most popular chatbot, ended with a cliffhanger: how will it survive in a ChatGPT world of large language models? Let's find out by translating the second half of Caixian Chen and Zibo Dong's excellent piece on Xiaoice, published in AItechtalk[AI科技评论], a portal under Leiphone. Key Takeaways: In July 2020, shortly after OpenAI releases GPT-3, Microsoft spins off Xiaoice as an independent company. Li Di, who incubated Xiaoice while he was at Microsoft's Bing division, will be the CEO. It's [...] --- First published: December 18th, 2023 Source: https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-248-xiaoice-where-do-we-go --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.