Microsoft's 2009 Project Milo AI demo was mostly faked — today it's mundane
Anen-o-me · reddit · 2026-10-21
A Reddit retrospective on Microsoft's 2009 Project Milo: a virtual character demoed as conversing and interacting with you, even commenting on your drawings. Many at the time saw it as a genuine AI breakthrough.
- It was never released, served to hype Microsoft's console and the Kinect 3D video system it used, and was soon exposed as largely faked.
- The author notes that today everything in the demo — video chatting with an AI, drawing together — is trivially achievable.
- And jokes it would be ironic if Microsoft resurrected Milo for the first AI-driven videogames that seem imminent.
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