What Makes a Good Bot or Not?

Bots are popping up everywhere from Facebook to home personal assistants. Advances in natural language processing, machine learning and other AI technology created the foundation for bots, but the field has a long way to go before it reaches its full potential. The Alexas and Cortanas of the world do an effective job at accomplishing requested tasks as long as people present them one at a time. A multi-threaded version of these digital personal assistants would allow them to remember multiple situations. This use case is closer to how people actually want to engage with the bots.