So Bot Right Now

Tech journals and TV segments are overflowing with them. But bots have been around for a very long time. Microsoft's relentlessly chirpy paperclip assistant "Clippy" seems to have morphed into the PR train wreck of Tay. The global titans of social technology are bullish about a brave new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered world of enhanced apps. Last month Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella proclaimed that "bots are the new apps" during the company's Build developers conference.