Artificial intelligence has taken over the world, it is used to augment sectors like business, education, construction, healthcare, transportation, and more. Artificial intelligence is used to save lives, create next-gen technologies, and most importantly to create a better world for humans. The applications of AI seem to be endless. Though it might seem that AI is a futuristic sci-fi technology that is ahead of our times, it's not stopping at personalizing your social media experience or automating monotonous tasks. One Concern empowers decision-makers to prepare for, respond to and recover from natural disasters. It was started by Stanford-educated scientists and engineers, with the aim of making homes and cities safer.

The first step towards a future where bots replace websites and mobile apps is to help the 100,000,000 businesses around the world setup their bots. This is the first thing we are focused on. Anyone can use Octane AI to setup a bot in minutes. You don't have to create your bot from the ground up and you don't have to learn conversational interfaces; we've done all of that for you. All you have to do on Octane AI is choose what you want your bot to do and then customize it to match your brand.

This week, our 5 bots to try list features three services that our Bots Channel readers may be familiar with. Two of them, Icon8bot and Azkarbot, were featured two weeks ago. And Octane AI, which makes its debut, became embroiled in a controversy shortly after launching, as reported by VentureBeat. But it's not enough to just read about them. Please give them a try and let us know what you think.