Why the true test for today's conversational AI chatbots is time

Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? From Siri to Alexa to Google, we are surrounded by AI systems that have been designed with a single goal: to understand us. We've seen incredible progress already. By performing hundreds of billions of calculations in the blink of an eye, the latest AI techniques can understand certain types of text with human-level accuracy. The challenge becomes significantly more daunting, however, when text is part of a larger conversation, where it requires considering context to interpret what the user means and decide how to respond. Still, chatbots like Facebook's BlenderBot 2.0 seem to foreshadow far less frustrating interactions with AI.