CHATBOTS

TECH
Fighting online trolls with bots
By The Conversation US, Contributor
Views from experts in academia, providing fact-based analysis ...
By Saiph Savage, West Virginia University Trolls can share pornographic images in a chat channel, instead of having conversations
TECH
Chatbots and the Rise of Women in Tech
By Sarah Nadav, Contributor
CEO Civilize
With the advent of the iphone we saw the rise of the app but now that smartphones have transformed our lives, the way we
TECH
3 Executive Insights for Application of Artificial Intelligence in eCommerce
By Daniel Faggella, Contributor
Founder & CEO of TechEmergence
At the recent VentureBeat MobileBeat conference on July 13, a panel of executives assembled to discuss the impact of emerging technologies on the future of commerce.
BUSINESS
The Evolution of Customer Service: How Companies Are Using Chatbots
By Dan Steiner, Contributor
CEO, Entrepreneur, and Author
Customer service online has not always been so successful for businesses. Finding a way to properly address concerns without interacting back and forth could take some time, hence why internet customer service used to mean taking emails about problems, and sending an email back asking them to call your phone line.
TECH
Why Bots Are the Next Industrial Revolution
By Alyx Baldwin, Contributor
Co-founder, CTO Kip. Design, Networks, AI.
Maybe it's an extreme version of our ego, but by creating intelligent beings perhaps we're not only questioning what it means to be human, but also showing how powerful and godlike we are.
BUSINESS
The Evolution of Creative Mobile Advertising
By Advertising Week, Contributor
Editor
By Evan Wray, vice president and co-founder of Swyft Media Evan Wray is co-founder and vice president of Swyft Media, a subsidiary
WEIRD NEWS
Two A.I. Chatbots Talk About Life, Argue About Everything
By Dominique Mosbergen
It's at times bizarre and hilarious, but altogether mesmerizing. When you meet someone for the first time, chances are you
TECH
Enter Eugene: The Curious Case of 'Eugene Goostman,' Part II
By Bill DeSmedt, Contributor
Knowledge engineer, philosophical dilettante, and author of th...
June 8th, 2014 is a day that shall live in A.I.nfamy. For on that day, Reading University visiting cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick announced that a "supercomputer" masquerading as a Ukrainian teenager had successfully convinced ten out of thirty judges that it was, in fact, a human being.
VIDEOS
Computer Passes Turing Test By Imitating 13-Year-Old Boy
Alan Turing would have been proud. Or would he have been terrified?
VIDEOS
Computer Fools Humans, Passes Turing Test For First Time
For the first time ever, a computer has successfully convinced people into thinking it’s an actual human in the iconic “Turing Test.”
SCIENCE
Computer Passes Turing Test By Imitating 13-Year-Old Boy, 'Eugene Goostman'
By Jacqueline Howard
In any case, competition organizer Dr. Kevin Warwick, a professor at the University of Reading in the U.K., said that the
TECHNOLOGY
Twitter Hoax Reveals What We Desire Most From Machines
By Bianca Bosker
CRIME
Online Sexual Predators Beware: There's a New 'Bot' in Town
By Russ Warner, Contributor
VP Marketing at Converus, makers of EyeDetect, innovative solu...
With natural language processing and memory of past conversations, Negobot uses slang, misspellings, and pop-culture knowledge to sound like a stereotypical teenage girl.
TECH
Vladimir Veselov Wins 2012 Turing Test: 13-Year-Old Chatbot Eugene Goostman Fools Judges
By www.theverge.com, www.theverge.com
When you're messaged by one of those annoying Internet chatbots, you can usually tell right away that there's no one on the