It's All Fun and Games Until You Give AI Your Credit Card

It's All Fun and Games Until You Give AI Your Credit Card AI personal assistants are now acting on people's behalf in the real world--and all sorts of strange things are going wrong. In the race to develop intelligent machines, the leading AI companies have built bots that can whip up spreadsheets at a moment's notice, write sophisticated code, and even solve long-standing math problems. But when it comes to the more mundane tasks of life--such as ordering groceries or booking flights--these tools sometimes still struggle. Now a new bot called Instinct is outperforming the AI giants. Instinct lets people ask for help with all kinds of tasks by texting the bot directly through iMessage or WhatsApp.