5 Human Traits to Boost up Chatbots

In the aftermath and early demise of Tay, the Microsoft bot gone rogue, and the anti-climax following Facebook's bot announcements at F8, it's safe to declare that it's high time for chatbots to mature from infancy into puberty, and not a moment too soon. As the Bot Rush overwhelms Silicon Valley and bot miners are flocking into San Francisco, the future of AI and Bot productivity lies in the hands of engineers that are willing to take the hard road. We're hoping that creative and well thought out research will win, rather than leaning on pundits' advice suggesting that: "you can take a bot template, tweak it, and launch it- over a weekend." I dare to guess that's exactly what the Microsoft folks had in mind (perhaps more than a weekend in their case) when they let Tay roam Twitter unsupervised. For Bots to become'Must Haves', they'll have to dance to the tune of a few fundamental human traits and qualities, currently ignored in the hype and rush to easy fortunes.