By John McCarthy

Microsoft has bravely unveiled a new chatbot called Murphy as it looks to pick itself up from the PR nightmare ignited by its learning Twitter bot Taybot – that very quickly reflected the worst traits mankind had to offer.

Murphy is a different beast, boasting integration with Facebook Messenger, Skype, Telegram, and soon Kik and Slack, it creates pictures based upon ‘what if’ propositions.

Murphy builds upon Microsoft’s Azure machine learning capabilities; you may remember the HowOldBot from last year, the company claims that more than 90 million people interacted with that bot.

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Source: The Drum