It’s clear that bots are having a moment. Even before Facebook’s Bots for Messenger announcement at their developer conference, there had already been a flood of investments, controversies, and ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are fantastic tools that can provide a wealth of benefits - in fact, GM recently launched an AI-focused website detailing the many ways in which the company ...

Emerging on the heels of the Facebook F8 Conference, chat bots have remained a hot topic in the media – specifically as they relate to Facebook Messenger and applications. Businesses and consumers ...

You may not have heard of Outbrain, but you’ve almost certainly seen the strange but alluring links it presents to you at the bottom of many news sites like CNN and The Guardian. Headlines like “Are ...

Chat bots are becoming increasingly more complex with the ability to actually hold down a real(ish) conversation. Microsoft has been previewing some of their advanced AI (not the now failed Tay ...

Microsoft's first foray into social chat bots didn't go so well given that propensity for racist diatribes. It's giving the concept another try, however, and this time it promises to be more ...

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In the world of Internet of Things, it’s easy enough to get something connected to the Internet. But what should you use to communicate with and control it? There are many standards and tools ...

My editor doesn't like email. And that's probably the reason he's into the Google service that automatically generates replies to incoming messages. Smart Reply, as my editor will tell you, is pretty ...

Right up front, we’re going to warn that fabricating a story about a dead or dying relative is a really bad idea; call us superstitious, but karma has a way of balancing things out in ways you might ...

Facebook’s Messenger bots may not be having the impact the social network desired. Just yesterday, online retailer Everlane, one of the launch partners for the bot platform, announced it was ditching ...

Microsoft's Tay AI is youthful beyond just its vaguely hip-sounding dialogue -- it's overly impressionable, too. The company has grounded its Twitter chat bot (that is, temporarily shutting it down) ...