It seems like barely a day passes without some notable mention of chat bots in the tech industry. Now one of North America’s most used chat apps has jumped on the wagon after Kik, the billion dollar ...

What is a Chat Bot? A chatbot is an artificial intelligence (AI) digital assistant. The program is designed to simulate human conversation using pre-calculated responses to common customer questions.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the impacts of computing & technology in manufacturing. This article is more than 5 years old. Chat bots are ...

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 ...