How to tell if your bot is smart enough

Me: Will it rain in NYC next week? Bot: It will be cloudy later today in New York, NY. Thanks to high-profile launches by Facebook and Microsoft, public attention has been focused on dumb message bots that answer basic requests such as "What's the weather?" But if messaging is the new platform and conversation the new UI, we are going to need smarter bots. Not bots that only give you information, but bots that know about you and help you do important things.