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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella may be the most publicly vocal tech giant CEO in his belief that conversation will be as impactful to computing as the graphic user interface. So maybe it makes sense that the company has made conversation-computing breakthroughs. Last week, Microsoft researchers announced that they made neural networks

Chatbot companies have raised over $140 million in the past six years. Over 60 percent of the funding came in 2015 and 2016 as the chatbot craze quickly took over Silicon Valley. The media remains optimistic about the potential of bots, but venture capitalists and other investors are increasingly wary of the

At TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in September 2016, Facebook’s VP of messaging products, David Marcus, admitted that chatbots got “overhyped very quickly.” And around the same time, something else very quickly changed: Chatbot pessimism became en vogue. The sudden change of opinion, like the original hype, is classic groupthink in action,

Have you ordered an Uber from Facebook Messenger? Have you used Amazon Echo’s Alexa to listen to tweets? Has Amy Ingram scheduled a meeting for you? Have you asked Siri for directions? If so, you, my friend, have had a close encounter with a bot. There’s a chatbot boom happening,

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. YouTube Rolls Out End Screens Feature for All Creators: YouTube launched End Screens, “a new mobile-friendly tool that lets

More than 11,000 chatbots are now conversing with real people on Facebook’s Messenger platform. What is a chatbot? As we’ve previously explained, a chatbot is a computer program that uses artificial intelligence to simulate conversation and perform tasks. Chatbots are increasingly being used by brands for a number of reasons.

If pop culture is to be believed, society is quickly heading toward a highly automated future ruled by artificial intelligence. Take Iron Man’s trusty sidekick, J.A.R.V.I.S. Within the Marvel franchise, the artificial intelligence system is able to think, act, and feel like a human. The supporting character is even sarcastic and

2016 has been quite a ride for the players in AI, NLP and ML technologies. From the famous advent of Microsoft Tay at the end of Q1 to the numerous acquisitions of AI and chatbot companies during the latter half of this year, artificial intelligence has been in the headlines

With Facebook Messenger now able to accept payments through chatbots, a new era of ecommerce is here. The new functionality lets retailers accept payments directly, right there within a Messenger conversation with a user. This is huge. As of February of this year, Facebook Messenger surpassed 1bn monthly active users, and

In addition to VR and other technological developments, 2016 has shaped up to be the year of the chatbot. Here we get the low-down on all things chatbot, and explore what impact chatbots will have on the music industry. __________________________ Guest post by Nikoo Sadr on The Orchard Chatbots. Alongside VR, this

VentureBeat’s Bots Channel tracks the most important news and analysis from the exploding field of bots and messaging. Each week, we select the top stories and present them in in our free weekly newsletter, BotBeat. We include news stories by VentureBeat staff, guest articles from leading figures in the bots community, and a good number of

How to Improve Blog Writing Through the Art of ‘Stealing’ [Infographic] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, or at least that’s the rumor. So, how can you (legally and ethically) ‘steal’ the high-performance content mojo from a fellow writer to help improve your work? This infographic explains how. MarketingProfs

Yes, a lot has been written about the rise of chatbots, the digital assistants that can live in places where we spend time like Slack and Facebook Messenger. Brands jumped in early — order flowers in Facebook Messenger or tacos in Slack — and there are chatbots for customer service, health advice,

This story was delivered to BI Intelligence “Fintech Briefing” subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Bank of America has announced the launch of its chatbot, Erica, at Money 20/20 on Monday in Las Vegas, Reuters and CNBC report. The project was first announced in April and will be

This story was delivered to BI Intelligence “Payments Briefing” subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Mastercard announced that it will be introducing a chatbot that will give both merchant and bank partners the ability to engage directly with consumers through a number of messaging platforms. With Mastercard KAI,