Regarding recent online rumors that the AI of Qwen "calls to book a restaurant with real people behind," Qwen officially issued a statement on January 26th to clarify. The official clearly stated that the pauses, tone, and even "human-like" expressions shown by the AI assistant during calls are not operated by real people, but rather due to its Real-time Emotion and Intention Recognition Engine. This technology can identify more than 50 complex emotions within 100 milliseconds and match the most appropriate empathetic responses in real time, thus achieving highly realistic natural interactions.

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Regarding the question raised by netizens about "why the AI assistant has working hours," Qwen also provided a logically rigorous explanation. When designing the function of making calls to book a table, the product manager fully considered the general business hours of the catering industry 10:00-22:00, and set a consistent service period in order to ensure that the AI call can effectively connect with the merchant's operations. This seemingly "human" time limit is actually a scenario-based adaptation aimed at improving the success rate of meal bookings.

Additionally, Qwen revealed the future development direction of this feature to further enhance user experience. Currently, advanced features such as customizing personal voice and supporting foreign language restaurant reservations are in the development phase. This means that in the near future, users will not only be able to let the AI imitate their own voice for communication, but also easily make reservations worldwide without language barriers.