An online chatting robot named Xiaotu on the website of Tsinghua University's library had to suspend services during the winter vacation because too many visitors wanted to talk to it about weird and wonderful matters unrelated to library services.
Xiaotu, which means "little library" in Chinese, has the ability to learn during its conversations with humans, but its designers said it has picked up too much "unsuitable material" from visitors to the website.
"It had been a long time anyway since we last cleared up its database, so we decided to suspend the service to do it," said a design group member surnamed Yao, who works in the university's library.
Xiaotu's main functions include answering questions about thelibrary, searching library collections and other search engines,and self-learning.
Chinadaily.com
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