Why Microsoft believes that AI bots are the only logical path forward

For Microsoft, the future of communication is bots. The company believes that artificial intelligence will eventually change the way we connect with people, businesses, and our computers. At Microsoft's Build developer conference on Wednesday, the company highlighted a handful of ways its integrating bots into platforms like Skype, and touched on new developments to Microsoft's personal bot assistant, Cortana. Microsoft also debuted a bot framework that lets developers integrate bots into their applications--similar to the way mobile developers can make apps for iOS or Android, they can now build bots on top of Microsoft's framework. Bots to order pizza, help with your kids' homework, schedule hotel reservations, these seemingly simple tasks will fall to an army of bots in our phones and computers and chat systems, personal assistants powered by AI, combing through data and applying logic and executing tasks based on our needs.