Is Cortana real?

Cortana is a fictional artificially intelligent
artificially intelligent
Industrial artificial intelligence, or industrial AI, usually refers to the application of artificial intelligence to industry.
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character
in the Halo video game series. Voiced by Jen Taylor, she appears in Halo: Combat Evolved and its sequels, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 4, Halo 5: Guardians and Halo Infinite.
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Is Cortana alive?

It turns out Cortana is in fact dead, having been locked on Zeta Halo by the Weapon, and cornered by the Banished leader Atriox. In her final moments, Cortana realizes the error of her ways and uses what little control she does have to sabotage the Halo ring to buy Master Chief some time to stop the Banished.
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Is Cortana good or evil?

For those not in the know, Cortana is well past the age an AI should be, and she now suffers from Rampancy, which has essentially turned her evil. This new Cortana seems based on Dr. Halsey — just like the original — but it's the AI effectively in her infancy.
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Why does Cortana look human?

In the Halo video games, Halsey originally created 20 clones of herself, with the surviving two combining their brains to create the Cortana AI. In the TV show, Cortana is created from just a single clone. But for Halo fans, it wasn't this difference in the plot that frustrated them. It was actually Cortana's looks.
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Is Cortana based on Dr Halsey?

In the original Halo game timeline, Cortana is a unique AI based on Dr. Halsey - the creator of the Spartan program - herself.
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Exclusive Interview with Jenn Taylor (the voice of Cortana) at E3 2013



Was Cortana cloned?

Creation and Early Life

Cortana was created using a flash cloned copy of Dr. Catherine Halsey's brain. Twenty flash cloned brains were created, but only two survived; one of the two survivors were used to create Cortana.
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Why is Cortana purple?

Bungie said Cortana was purple when she was young, they show her as purple in Halo Reach and Halo CE. Then 343 made Halo CE anniversary and decide to represent her in blue. Then 343 made her purple in Halo Infinite.
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Is Cortana sexualized?

Cortana was too sexualized in the past, so now this new AI must be sapped of all sexualization altogether. But it could be that this AI is purposefully presenting herself (itself?)
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Is Cortana a human?

Cortana is a fictional artificially intelligent character in the Halo video game series. Voiced by Jen Taylor, she appears in Halo: Combat Evolved and its sequels, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 4, Halo 5: Guardians and Halo Infinite.
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Why does Cortana change every game?

A lot of the design changes as we progress[ed] through the game generations was because we had access to better graphics, technology, more pixels, and more effects. And so it's always been about adapting Cortana to the environment."
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How old is Cortana?

4 Halo 4: Cortana (Age 8, AI Chip, Activated November 7) Master Chief might have been the one to fight the Covenant and Flood, but it was thanks to Cortana that each mission was successful.
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Is Cortana a Weapon?

"The Weapon" (AI Serial Number: CTN 0453-0) is the moniker of an artificial intelligence. She was created as an exact copy of the AI Cortana, designed to enter an installation to imitate Cortana and lock her down for retrieval.
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Why did Cortana go crazy?

Reclaimer Saga. In Halo 4, Cortana experiences rampancy, causing her to become unstable and volatile until her apparent death.
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Who deleted Cortana?

During this period Atriox, the leader of The Banished and a large army of his boys manages to confront Cortana on Zeta Halo at the same time Master Chief appears with the UNSC and an AI known as The Weapon with the plan of containing Cortana and deleting her.
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Did the Weapon name herself Cortana?

In Halo Infinite, the Weapon does not have a name. It was implied that The Weapon wanted to name herself Cortana after asking the Master Chief if it's okay to do so. In the final scene inside the Pelican, after the pilot introduced himself as Fernando Esparza, the pilot asked what to call The Weapon.
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How did Cortana sacrifice herself?

Cortana is “dead” in Halo Infinite, or at least she isn't active. At the end of the game, it's revealed that she realized the error of her ways. She leaves echoes of herself scattered around Zeta Halo to point Chief in the right direction and sacrifices herself to stop Atriox's assault on the UNSC.
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Can I hear Cortana's voice?

Change TTS settings

According to users, if you can't hear Cortana, the issue might be your TTS settings. To fix the problem, simply change TTS settings in Cortana and set the default voice to Microsoft Zera Mobile. After doing that, the problem with Cortana should be completely resolved.
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How smart is Cortana?

For accuracy in answering questions, the only assistant that increased its accuracy year over year was Cortana Invoke, which went from 86.0 percent to 92.1 percent of questions answered correctly. But many of us are still reluctant to use voice commands in public places.
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Is Cortana named after Halo?

The article is a good reminder of the fun origin story behind the assistant being branded as “Cortana” — the name was taken from the Halo character (who is also an AI, which isn't confusing at all) and was only supposed to be used during development.
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Why is Cortana no longer naked?

"She's not actually nude because she has neither clothes nor private parts. She's effectively just wearing kind of a holographic body stocking; that's the conceit." In the expansive Halo fictional universe, AI are able to choose their appearance.
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Why did they give Cortana clothes?

In a recent interview with GamesRadar, “Halo” franchise director Frank O”Connor explained their retcon backstory to explain Cortana's former nudist ways: “She's not really nude … but that's what it makes you think of. So one of the reasons she [chooses to appear without clothes] is to attract and demand attention.
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Will Cortana be in Halo Infinite?

Halo Infinite does feature Cortana, but not necessarily as a lot of fans expected her to be featured. Following her mutiny in Halo 5: Guardians, she left Master Chief's side, so to replace her, Chief gets a new AI named Weapon. Weapon fills a lot of the void left by Cortana, but they aren't quite the same.
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Why did Cortana choose Noble 6?

She choose Noble 6 to get to the PoA safely from Halsey's lab. Plus, Noble 6's armor couldn't carrier her like MC's hence he has the data thing attached to his back.
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