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Students Need to Explore the Nature of AI

From The Creative Classroom with John Spencer · Hosted by John Spencer

2025-10-14

Episode summary

In this episode of The Creative Classroom with John Spencer: In 2014, Microsoft launched a hugely successful AI bot named Xiaoice in China. With over forty million conversations, users often described feeling as though they were interacting with a real human.

Original publisher description

In 2014, Microsoft launched a hugely successful AI bot named Xiaoice in China. With over forty million conversations, users often described feeling as though they were interacting with a real human. Microsoft founder Bill Gates described it this way, “’Xiaoice has attracted 45 million followers…