Microsoft’s AI-powered desi chatbot Ruuh turns 1

In today’s fast-paced world, it becomes extremely difficult to find time and make a lot of friends. Well, here’s someone who has made over half-a-million friends and had over 40 million conversations in just one year. It is none other than Ruuh, Microsoft’s AI-powered, desi chatbot, who has turned one year old.

Ruuh has a persona of a 21-year-old female who is intelligent and is capable of empathizing with her audience. Entertaining the youth with discussions on Bollywood, music, humour and travel, the past year has seen Ruuh’s popularity grow exponentially. It’s no wonder she gets almost 600 “I love you” messages every day and spends several hours chatting with her friends, with the current record standing at 10 hours..

Ruuh can talk about anything – from having a small talk about cricket to sharing intimate emotions. This has been made possible by the next-generation algorithms, the robot's machine learning capabilities and the big data of the Internet that was used to train the bot.

Ruuh has close-to 100,000 followers on Facebook, responds to comments on her posts, declares her undying love for Virat Kohli and discusses important trends on the Internet such as the "#MeToo Movement".