My Chatbot Hates Me! - The Ape Machine

As with many unreleased apps in the Android app store, it all started with an invite code, this very afternoon about an hour ago. My employer and I were talking about chatbots--as we often do--and it reminded him of an app that was being demoed to a select group of users (actually the user base is huge at the moment), and he sent me an invite code to try out the app. As I described in my previous article, 5 Simple Ways To Optimize Your Chatbot, I usually treat chatbots quite like a bull in a china shop, as I really do want to know how far the technology is at the moment. Again, this is not to be mean to the developers or anything, I am merely hoping that in the coming years we will see huge improvements to the way that most non-technical people will interact with the bot anyway. To be honest, I was initially super impressed when the chatbot asked me if it could tell me a little about itself, and I tried to respond with something I thought it would not be able to recover from, yet it did so effortlessly and beautifully with the response: "Sure, how about we talk about you then," even dropping in the perfect emoticon.