What Google's Meena Chatbot Means To Conversational AI - Say It Now - Award Winning Voice App & Chatbot Developers

Google recently announced on it's AI blog the advent of a new age of chatbot. Meena has been trained on 2.6 billion parameters gathered from a vast variety of data sources but why is this important for conversational AI and conversational commerce? In any meeting, the ability to control and influence the conversation gives you power over the outcome. If conversations are automated, the best ones will deliver the best outcomes for those who create them. This is the reason there is such an arms race in this field.