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Nearly 20 percent of all election-related tweets come from an army of influential robots. by Nanette Byrnes November 8, 2016 If your political conversations on social media seem mechanical and predictable, it might be because you are debating with a robot. A study published the day before the election found

Slack may soon be careening back to earth following a meteoric rise that saw the messaging app become one of the most popular and revered in business. That’s because in the last 30 days two of the world’s largest and most influential technology companies have set their sights on Slack

LISBON—Facebook is further integrating chatbots into the platform by letting brands buy newsfeed ads that directly link to one-to-one conversations in Messenger. During a talk today at the Web Summit tech conference, Facebook vp of messaging David Marcus said advertisers for the first time are now be able to target

The end of the year is fast approaching, which means Christmas jingles, New Year’s resolutions and… prediction posts. And while the ever-shifting social landscape eventually renders many such prognostications invalid, it’s still worth analyzing what might be on the horizon as a means of trying to understand where we’re at,

The day has finally arrived for people to cast their vote for the U.S. president, not to mention candidates for the Senate, the House and a raft of state and local elections. To ensure you don’t miss out on any election coverage today, here’s a look at the various ways

“She will never win,” Gabriella tweeted emphatically on Monday, hours before the polls opened on Election Day. “Stealing is not winning, it’s losing.” “Hillary Hillary Hillary!” Mel tweeted in the same hour, with equal enthusiasm. As the war for hearts and minds and votes entered the final battle, it was no time for partisans

Many Americans — and possibly even non-Americans — have probably had enough of this year’s presidential election coverage. Interestingly, some of the election news written over the past few months wasn’t created by trained journalists — at least not trained in the traditional sense. “Bots” or “robo-journalists” have actually provided content

Facebook has reportedly thrown the opening salvo in its long anticipated move into the recruiting and hiring vertical, with TechCrunch reporting yesterday that the ubiquitous social network has confirmed it is beginning to roll out a “Jobs” tab, which allows employers to post (and, of course, promote) job openings directly

If you think this election is insane, wait until 2020. I want you to imagine how, in four years’ time, technologies like AI, machine learning, sensors and networks will accelerate. Political campaigns are about to get hyper-personalized thanks to advances in a few exponential technologies. Imagine a candidate who now

In 2005, Ikea released Anna, a virtual assistant that functioned as one of the first mainstream chatbots. Consumers could ask Anna about prices, parts, store hours, and Swedish meatballs. But after a decade, Ikea shut down Anna, citing customer dissatisfaction as a key reason why it was time to move

Fifteen year old Sarafina, a female student in the capital city of Liberia, had a distressing problem at school: Her math teacher refused to give her a report card unless she had sex with him. Every day at school, he would request sexual favors and touch her inappropriately. Embarrassed, Sarafina kept

Almost a year ago, we published our now-annual landscape of machine intelligence companies, and goodness have we seen a lot of activity since then. This year’s landscape has a third more companies than our first one did two years ago, and it feels even more futile to try to be

Virgin Media has launched its first 4G tariffs, the last major UK network to offer high-speed mobile internet plans. The network said it would “zero-rate” both WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, so using the apps would not count towards customers’ data usage. However, the apps will stop working if customers use

Qui ? Valentin Duboc, Responsable du marketing numérique d’Arte. Quoi ? Une interview, pour avoir un aperçu des projets d’Arte dans le domaine des “chatbots”, à l’occasion du Hub Forum 2016. Comment ? En juin 2016, Arte lançait un hackathon virtuel, en partenariat avec Microsoft. La mission : faire évoluer

Recently, Converse.AI participated in Bot World, a dedicated UK event that brought together brands, developers and pioneers of the hottest tech trend. We hosted and moderated a panel session featuring Facebook, Sage and Twilio on the Top Considerations When Building A Relevant Bot. The conversation was engaging and thoughtful and