Come Fly With AI, IBM Cloud Builds 'Chatbot' Virtual Travel Agent

Shopping mall travel agency shops are so 1999 and online booking needs more interaction, right? Wouldn't you prefer to book after chatting to a virtual'bot' that has more cognitive power and destination intelligence than a human being? IBM is opening a new raft of UK cloud datacenters, but positive progress asside this is not necessarily news. Every weighty cloud player worth its salt is continuing to press ahead with datacenter expansion plans across the European mainland (Rackspace has just announced plans for a new German facility this week) and similar expansion is being seen in the Americas and the rest of the world. All of this (largely, it appears) irrespective of Brexit, the new US presidency and the current state of play on Dancing With The Stars and/or Strictly Come Dancing (delete as'transatlantically' appropriate).