Cortana, Microsoft’s phonation assistant, has had a combat of an upgrade inward the pity division afterwards someone constitute out how unhelpful it was when it came to medical emergencies.
Maneesh Juneja, who is a ‘Digital Health Futurist’ (we’re non certain what that means, either) constitute that when he told Cortana “I'm bleeding,” rather than springing into activity to furnish helpful information, the phonation assistant instead exactly replied “Interesting”. Not terribly useful.
You tin picket the whole interaction below inward his tweet:
An improved bed-side manner
The tweet was clearly seen past times Microsoft, which worked chop-chop to ameliorate Cortana’s response. Now, the phonation assistant gives you lot helpful information, besides equally urging you lot to essay medical assist in addition to providing a link to NHS advice (if you’re inward the UK, at least).
You tin meet the novel response inward Juneja’s next tweet:
It’s adept to meet that Microsoft acted in addition to thence chop-chop to update Cortana, but it does demo that the companies behind these phonation assistants withdraw to seriously await at how they answer to potential emergencies inward the future, specially if they desire us to teach increasingly dependant on these AI-powered assistants.
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