At Build 2019, Microsoft today announced a new conversational engine, 'conversational AI'. It will integrate with Cortana in order to provide advanced interactions and new capabilities.
Microsoft has been working with the technology they acquired when they purchased Semantic Machines in 2018. They managed to create a new conversational AI technology with the intention of building a future where every organisation has their own agents with their own unique contexts, just like they have their own websites and apps today, and where those agents seamlessly inter-operate.
Previously, Cortana has been limited in command recognition. The user must say special keywords, and form voice requests in a strict way. With the help of the new technology, Cortana will be able to understand natural human conversation. Also, it will be able to handle multiple queries and skills at once.
This new conversational engine will be integrated into Cortana and made available to developers through the Bot Framework, as well as other Azure surfaces and beyond, powering conversational experiences across the company and our customer ecosystem.
Microsoft didn't name the official release date for the new 'conversational AI' engine. According to the company, it will become available relatively soon.
Check out the official announcement.
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User: “Cortana, can you be my friend?”
Cortana: “Yes. I can now converse with you like a friend.”
… (1 Month Later) …
User: “Cortana, are you spying on me?”
Cortana: “Friends would never spy on each other, right?”
User: “So, are you spying on me or not?”
Cortana: “I find our friendship to be very enjoyable.”