The rise of chatbots and Indian startups - Times of India

A bunch of startups is using tech to make everyday tasks much easier. One can book flights and buy mobile phone or insurance plans, simply by using a messaging app and chatting with a robot. Remember JARVIS, 'Iron Man' Tony Stark's intelligent assistant who not only controls everything in Stark's house but was also his closest friend. Some thing similar, far from that powerful yet, is available now to more ordinary folks. They are called chatbots, computer programs that can have automated text conversations with users using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing.