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s17tnet
Really? closed/mobile-app only service?

What if people stop demolishing open web ?

return0
Indeed. They preferred writing 5 bots and a web page, instead of a web page.
wodenokoto
How do I go from this landing page to actually chatting with Murphy? I have messenger installed on my android phone, but clicking the button opens a page telling me to download messenger.
usmannk
Instead of the button you can also compose a message to @ProjectMurphy
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brospars
Some pictures are pretty fun like "What if John Cena was a singer ?" but others don't work that well..
cgriswald
This lead me down a dark path.

What if John Cena was ...

...pretty. ...tiny. ...Hulk Hogan. ...in The Princess Bride. (my fave) ...in KISS.

...

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iverjo
Some example images:

"What if Barney Stinson was a woman?": http://imgur.com/l7yVhwj

"What if Harry Potter looked like the artist Savant?": http://imgur.com/ePuWVsd

"What if Mark Zuckerberg was 10 years old?": http://imgur.com/75qGJQC

gearhart
So this takes a sentence of the form "what if <x> <predicate> <y>", discards the predicate, gets a photograph of x and y from a tagged up database, identifies faces from them and merges the face of x into the place where the face was in y.

Well done Microsoft.... very imaginative.

dogma1138
Well if you ask this one anything about Hitler/Adolf you get "..."

Some one at Microsoft has learned something as it seem...

EDIT: Whelp nvm i broke it http://imgur.com/UMf2F96 http://imgur.com/VAPtEAt They really need to have a better H filter....

cgriswald
Looks like they fixed it, sort of. Just tried "hit ler" and got "..." so I tried "h itler" with similar results to your own. "Itler" also works.

Edit: "what if itler was in Guardians of the Galaxy"

patrickg_zill
Isn't there a Futurama episode about this? Did my brain mis-fire or did I read this and think "The Finglonger" for a reason?
Jordrok
"So that's what things would be like if I'd invented the fing-longer. [Sigh]. A man can dream though. A man can dream..."
stepvhen
I stumbled onto this a few weeks ago, when I installed skype to talk to a friend. I was going to ask the usual round of self referential questions one normally does with chatbots, but it wanted me to take a picture of myself before answering anything. We ended up meeting on IRC and I never thought of it again.
tasteup
What if Microsoft made another chatbot...
Animats
Answering "what if" questions well is essential to AI that actually does something. That's how you test plans. This is what "common sense" is really about. The kind of questions a robot needs answered are "What if I place an auto tire on top of a milk carton?"

This, however, seems to just be another chatterbot.

kateho
Just typed in 'What if robots ruled the world?'

No reply after 10mins ... shouldn't I get some sort of error handling/user expectation management if it's a question that can't be answered by Murphy?

get2zpointer
This is really dialed back. It seems Microsoft is pretty terrified of another Tay-like event.