From weather to shopping, the chat bot experience is only just beginning. — -- Get ready to make friends with chat bots on Facebook. The first few chat bots have settled into Facebook Messenger ...

Analysts expect chat bots will be a big theme at annual event. — -- It's a tantalizing thought: Log onto Facebook, order a pizza from a chat bot, ask another to look for vacation packages while ...

Too busy to keep up with your friends? There’s a chat bot for that. We’ve all been there. The deluge of information on Facebook is why I no longer bother to check the social network — because, even ...

As we head into 2016, enterprise chat applications like Slack are suddenly a hot commodity, and if you’re inside chat a good portion of the day the argument goes, you should be able to access other ...

Microsoft is testing a new chat bot, Tay.ai, that is aimed primarily at 18 to 24 year olds in the U.S. Tay was built by the Microsoft Technology and Research and Bing teams as a way to conduct ...

Bots are applications that are designed to respond to conversational language. The aim is to create services -- whether that's the ability to order a pizza or to enter a meeting in a calendar -- where ...

Microsoft has made no secret of its grand plans for chat bots, and this week it rolled out five new ones for Skype. Surely the most fun is “Spock,” a bot that promises to help you “learn the ways of ...

Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, instructors have worried about how students might circumvent learning by utilizing the chat bot to complete homework and other assignments. Over the years, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the impacts of computing & technology in manufacturing. This article is more than 5 years old. Chat bots are ...