Bots are the new apps: Microsoft reveals how artificial intelligence will order our pizza

Microsoft has revealed a future where we will interact with numerous'bots' to do everything from book hotels and manage our diaries, to order pizza. Shown off at the company's annual Build conference in San Francisco, bots will take artificial intelligence - and how humans interact with computers - into a new generation. Explained as simply as possible, bots are like personal assistants with apps who can be given orders. By understanding natural human language, the bots know - and will learn over time - what we want from them, and can be tuned to become smarter and more efficient. An example Microsoft gave was how a bot could be used by Dominos to help automate pizza orders.