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I don’t know if you remember, but a few years ago Microsoft made a big bet on Cortana. Your own virtual assistant. Halo fans were amazed by the possibility of being able to chat with the famous AI of the game universe, but in the end what we had was an Alexa substitute limited to a few Redmond products.
Don’t get me wrong, Cortana worked just fine, and I don’t think another virtual assistant handled the topic of conversation as well. But it arrived in Europe very shrunken, with few possibilities and no material to support it. The days of talking to the PC are over, and the Cortana button invited everything but to press it to discover its possibilities. Plus, there was the fact that it was originally designed for Windows Phone 8, which meant that many of its functions were initially only implemented in one of the operating systems with the smallest user base. users at the time.
Cortana’s faux pas as a virtual assistant
The reasons for Cortana’s failure were varied, ranging from a disastrous communication plan and business support from Microsoft itself, to competition that triggered it whenever possible, as was the case with Google with Google Assistant or Amazon with Alexa. Poor Cortana was never lucky, she came out late and bad, and maybe not using the video game image and replacing it with a nondescript circle also worked against her.
I remember the wizard It was also on Xbox One for a while, but ultimately Microsoft itself sacrificed it in favor of Alexa support. By then, we all knew Cortana was no longer a priority and her hours were numbered. In fact, there is a specific Microsoft page where he informs us “where is cortana“.
Cortana is no longer available on Xbox consoles. This means that you will no longer be able to issue voice commands to Cortana using your headset or Kinect. However, there are two ways to continue using voice commands with your Xbox.
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New Artificial Intelligence tools, new paradigms
However, things have now changed a lot and there is a real chance of seeing Cortana again. And if not her, maybe if another assistant created by Microsoft. Americans have invested a lot of money in funding OpenAIand we already have Bing Chat, which uses the ChatGPT 3 natural language model to answer user questions, recommend content, etc.
The truth is that OpenAI technology is gigantic and becoming more and more popular every day. So much so that tycoons like Elon Musk are considering banning it because of the risks that such a smart, fast-learning system could have. And it is that the achievements of this technology are so great that it is easy to think that Microsoft can take advantage of this technology to bring it to a smart speaker, a hologram projector or a new assistant under Windows or Xbox.
HARman Kardon speaker, first and only speaker to support Cortana – Via: Thurrot.
If new artificial intelligence technologies and learning models allow us to interact so naturally, quickly and efficiently in a chat, what prevents this from leading to a model in which instead of interact with text, we do it with voice? There are already countless solutions that transcribe the voice, and it would suffice to pass this text to the OpenAI API and this represents the response in the voice format of said speaker or application.
In fact, it would be a good point for Microsoft enter various preconfigured Halo prompts so there are occasional Easter eggs for fans of the franchise. I think today it would be a success to revive Cortana with other goals and her own personality, something that Halo Infinite has already done by the way 😉
