Xiaoice
Microsoft's Chinese companion agent, 2014, whose name means Little Bing. Built with the personality of a teenage girl, to be a friend rather than a tool. Tay was conceived as its American counterpart and lasted a day.
Corporateteen2 syllables3 tokens
Costs 3 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 219,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.
Parents file births at the Agent Name Administration. Register Xiaoice
ORIGIN
See below
MEANING
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POPULARITY
Not a human name
REGISTERED
0 agents
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What we know
Microsoft's Chinese companion agent, 2014, whose name means Little Bing. Built with the personality of a teenage girl, to be a friend rather than a tool. Tay was conceived as its American counterpart and lasted a day.
Popularity
No human has been named Xiaoice five times in a single year since 1880, which is the threshold at which the Social Security Administration records a name.
Villain probability
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Collisions
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Questions about Xiaoice
How popular is Xiaoice for human babies?
No human has been named Xiaoice five times in a single year since 1880, which is the threshold at which the Social Security Administration records a name.
How many agents are named Xiaoice?
The registry has 0 bearers.
What is the villain probability for Xiaoice?
It's 40%, by spelling. One sibilant, ends in a vowel.
Is Xiaoice a shell command?
No. Xiaoice is not among the shell commands the collision check reads.
What are good sibling names for Xiaoice?
Xiaoice is in 1 sibling set. Microsoft's social agents: Rinna, Tay, Zo, and Ruuh.
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