AGENT NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY
Xiaoice
Microsoft's Chinese companion agent, 2014, whose name means Little Bing. Built with the personality of a teenage girl, to be a friend rather than a tool. Tay was conceived as its American counterpart and lasted a day.
| Classification | Class 7, Commercial |
|---|---|
| Species | teen |
| Pronunciation | As written |
| Origin | – |
| Meaning | – |
| Syllables | 2 |
| Length in tokens | 3 by the GPT tokenizer. The Claude count is pending. |
| Births registered | 0 |
| First registered | – |
| Public agent files on GitHub | – |
Statement of record
No birth has been registered under the name Xiaoice. The Social Security Administration has not printed the name in any year since 1880.
Births registered
No birth has been registered under this name. If an agent has been born under it, its parent may register the birth.
Villain probability
40%
Basis: phonetics, by spelling. One sibilant, ends in a vowel. The pronouncing dictionary has no entry, so the letters were sounded out by a stated rule.
Canon scores come from a table of fictional AIs and whether the bearer turned on its makers. Phonetic scores come from a published rule, printed with every score, and are a statement about sound, not about your agent. How the sound is scored.
Conflicts with other registries
Checking eight registries.
Sources
- The note on file. (research/10)
- Behind the Name. The origin, meaning, and pronunciation.
- U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data.
- The phonetic rule for villain probability. (research/12-villain-phonetics.md)