Microsoft’s AI division head wants to create a lasting relationship between chatbots and their users

Fifty years after the founding of Microsoft, the CEO of its artificial intelligence division has a big task: develop a new product line as integral to daily life as the software giant’s past innovations.

“We’re really trying to land this idea that everybody is going to have their own personalised AI companion,” said Mustafa Suleyman in an interview with The Associated Press. “It will, over time, have its own name, its own style. It will adapt to you. It may also have its own visual appearance and expressions.”

Suleyman laid out that vision on…