Your personal assistant doesn't need any chatbots -- or does it?

Not only do more people use messaging services than social networks, they spend more time using these services than they do on social networks and browsing the web, combined. Messaging is in its heyday. The future of technology is in conversation. At the same time, breakthroughs in deep learning and reinforcement learning have brought artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP) to a whole new level. This goes beyond rebranding terms like "data mining" and "machine learning" as artificial intelligence.