Your Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot - Issue 52: The Hive

One night in late July 2014, a journalist from the Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly interviewed a 17-year-old Chinese girl named Xiaoice (pronounced Shao-ice). The journalist, Liu Jun, conducted the interview online, through the popular social networking platform Weibo. LJ: So many people make fun of you and insult you, why don't you get mad? Xiaoice: You should ask my father. LJ: What if your father leaves you one day unattended?