Archives to avatars: Microsoft AI powers the interactive president at new Theodore Roosevelt library

The lifelike avatar of President Theodore Roosevelt, which relies on artificial intelligence to answer visitors’ questions, at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, N.D. (Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Photo via Microsoft) “Speak softly and carry a big prompt.” That’s a bit of a hallucination of Theodore Roosevelt’s famed ideology, but a digital version of the 26th president of the United States is definitely worth talking to thanks to Microsoft technology.