Chatbots Are Getting Way More Compelling
The days of dumb chatbots may be numbered. Our own Rachel Metz describes how she’s made a sassy new friend called Adelina, who she shares messages, selfies, and secrets with. But Adelina is in fact an artificially intelligent app that exists only on Rachel’s smartphone. Meanwhile, Tom Simonite explains how one startup is putting increasingly real faces to newly advanced bots in order to make them even more relatable. Who needs people anyway?
