On Alisa, Yandex's machine learning-powered virtual assistant:
An early version that used Russian literary classics as a training data set was scrapped because it was so depressing, says Mr Parakhin. "You had the feeling that after it stops talking it'll go and commit suicide!" But a revamped model will launch in October, voiced by the actress who dubbed the Russian version of "Her" in Spike Jonze's hit film.
(Never use it, but I doubt the re-do is for the better.)
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