{"id":301142,"date":"2016-10-07T08:29:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T15:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&#038;p=301142"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:59:07","slug":"oreilly-bot-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/oreilly-bot-day-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Reilly Bot Day 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p><strong>Venue:<\/strong>\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acc-missionbayconferencecenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mission Bay Conference Center<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conversational interfaces will revolutionize the way we interact with computers, bringing artificial intelligence into everyday conversations and transactions. 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Microsoft was excited to be a supporting sponsor for this first ever <a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.oreilly.com\/artificial-intelligence\/bot-ca\" target=\"_blank\">O'Reilly Bot Day<\/a> on October 19, 2016 in San Francisco, CA at the Mission Bay Conference Center, where one of the experts was our very own Lili Cheng.\r\n<h2>Invited Speaker<\/h2>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lilich\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lili Cheng<\/a>,\u00a0Distinguished Engineer and General Manager, FUSE Labs, Microsoft Research\r\n\r\n<strong>Bots in Society<\/strong> |\u00a0Robertson Auditorium,\u00a04:30 PM \u2013 5:20 PM\r\n\r\nConversational interfaces are a novel way to interact with computers. Human language is becoming the new user interface, bots the new apps, and personal digital assistants the new browsers. These layers are built on artificial intelligence that\u2019s made breathtaking progress in the last few years. 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