Microsoft, Facebook, Slack … Simone, Her, and i, Robot. Bots of all kinds have long been the subject of movies and software centered on artificial intelligence, but as of late the hype about bots, specifically chatbots, has spiked considerably. Headlines confetti the internet claiming chatbots are the hot new thing in tech and represent the future, like it or not. But why the sudden interest in chatbots when they’ve been around for so long? Who keeps making them, and what do they really do?
