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 ...

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 ...

As generative AI becomes increasingly integrated into enterprise applications, one promising frontier is enabling conversational access to organizational data. Microsoft Fabric, the end-to-end ...

This year, we’ve watched Apple, Google, Facebook, Samsung, Microsoft, and many other tech giants make acquisitions or launch products to get into the bot business. They’re building bot ecosystems ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Microsoft has filed a patent which raises the intriguing ...

“Chat bots” broke onto the tech scene earlier this year with a torrent of hype, but most have so far failed to live up to it. Part of that is because many consumer chat bots seem like just another ...

A demonstration of Stack Overflow’s new chatbot, built using Microsoft’s AI technology. (GeekWire screenshot) Software developers stuck with a thorny programming problem now have a new option when ...

Chatbots! They're all the rage: Kik has them, Facebook wants them, and it seems like every computer coder wants to make them. But what are they? And why is every company suddenly hot on this new A.I.

Even before the pandemic struck, America’s healthcare workers were struggling. Increasingly, hospitals and clinics are short-staffed. There simply aren’t enough doctors and nurses to go around. In ...