Chatbots are the next evolutionary step for robots

Even in the early days of bots, people were attempting to communicate with them as if they were human beings, Weizenbaum was attempting to create a bot that would learn from its interactions. IBM set up a competition between two of Jeopardy's most successful contestants and Watson; an intelligent natural language processor that uses machine learning technologies to answer questions. Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Autodesk are just a small sampling of the organizations working hard to build a bot that can interact with people using natural language and learn from those experiences. Watson is the blueprint; Slack, Facebook, Google, and Apple have examples of the interfaces humans will utilize.