The Big Bot Wave

Although artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for decades, of late a new wave of ".ai" is sweeping the technology world. This time around, it has manifested in the form of bots. Tech giants of Silicon Valley have ventured into this space, either by building bots themselves -- such as Cortana, Siri, or Alexa -- and/or by coming up with bot-building platforms like Wit.ai or API.ai. Other smaller companies and startups were also quick to jump on this bandwagon, resulting in an overflowing "bot landscape" in the otherwise human-dominated world. On Facebook Messenger alone there have been approximately 35,000 bots built in last six months -- news bots, weather bots, and scheduling bots, to name just a few.