Deep learning is worth the hype. You can generate faces indistinguishable from real ones and train models to detect fake news better than humans can. That's what drew me in to learn computer vision and natural language processing several months ago. Now fast-forward a couple of months to last June. I decided to apply, and lo and behold: I was accepted! I was super excited to join an awesome team of 40 other researchers and enthusiasts ready to make a change in the world with AI in only 8 weeks!

In this paper after short review of the CSIEC project initialized by us in 2003 we present the continuing development and improvement of the CSIEC project in details, including the design of five new Microsoft agent characters representing different virtual chatting partners and the limitation of simulated dialogs in specific practical scenarios like graduate job application interview, then briefly analyze the actual conditions and features of its application field: web-based Englis h education in China. Finally we introduce our effort s to adapt this system to the requirements of English te aching and learning in China and point out the work next to do.