Rise of the bots: X.ai raises 23m more for Amy, a bot that arranges appointments

While voice-recognition-powered virtual assistants like Siri, Cortana and Amazon's Echo continue to get more useful and reliable on the march to platform-dom, there is a parallel wave of development underway that has captured the public eye, where machine learning, artificial intelligence and natural language processing are getting corralled for more narrowly purposed means -- by… Read More