In short, they’re not going to take over the world. Yet.
Everything we published this month
- Our introduction to the topic, profiling ELIZA, the first chatbot to go wrong.
- Our comprehensive reading list, packed with recommendations for what to read and watch on the subject of chatbots.
- John Ohno’s explanation of how the technology behind chatbots comes from spam.
- Natalie Holmes’s summary of research into using AI to communicate with animals.
- Matt Locke’s thoughtful call for bots to be more like plants and less like people.
- Gillian Rhodes’s mission to find a bot to dance with.
- Vas Panagiotopoulos’s exposé of how much of our journalism is written by robots.
- Abigail Ronck’s diary of dieting with a chatbot.
- Natalie Kane’s inquiry into who we should blame when a therapy bot goes wrong.
- Simon Parkin’s examination of how the police are looking into chatbot interrogators.
- Jessica Harneyford’s thoughtful look at what it’ll take for us to fall in love with an artificial intelligence.
- Leigh Alexander’s deep dive into how bots fit into the scripture of the world’s major religions.
- Guy Gadney sharing an account of the difficulties he encountered when writing a chatbot into a piece of interactive fiction.
- Brett Scott’s clear explanation of why bots make it easier for corporations to manipulate us.
- And finally, our ranking of the world’s most powerful bots in The Bot Power List 2016.
from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/145508128812
