Even your academic advisor might one day be a robot

Both research teams have picked the college campus as their starting point. They believe observing interactions between thousands of students and their faculty will help them develop a conversational system that has an EQ to match its IQ. The potential for emotional awareness already sets this AI apart from Siri. Digital assistants on the phone rely on rule-based technologies to come up with appropriate responses to your questions. So, in a way, the answers are scripted.