Developer creates chatbot which can pretend to be you in group messages

If you're too busy, lazy or antisocial to keep up with all the conversations happening in your Facebook Messenger inbox, then an American developer has just created the perfect program for you. During the recent TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon in New York, Irene Chang made the The Chat Bot Club - a program that essentially creates a robotic version of yourself, which can post messages in conversations and trick your friends into thinking that you're actually there. Using the Cisco Spark messaging app as her platform, Chang used IBM's Watson chatbot software to build the program, TechCrunch reports. The Chat Bot Club monitors your messages and gradually learns your messaging'style', building up a database of your typical reponses, favourite phrases, and most-used emojis. The bot can then send messages to your group chats, making it seem like you're paying attention while you focus on more important things.