A Concise Overview of Recent Advances in Chatbot Technologies

Editor's note: Originally posted as part of Grakn's Advent at Grakn Labs series. In this era, one can safely say that creating your own chat bot is no longer reserved only for crazy engineers but even non-technical people can create their own. Chat bots have received a lot of hype in 2016 with large news networks like CNET lauding it as the best thing since sliced bread. So did 2016 actually end up being the year of the bot? One of the pioneers of the rise of the bots is Chinese mobile messaging platform WeChat who has provided a bot platform since 2013.