Bots are applications ... where the dialogue with the app is as natural and apparently unscripted as an interaction you might have with a human. Chat bots are like narrow versions of digital ...

It seems like barely a day passes without some notable mention of chat bots in the tech industry. Now one of North America’s most used chat apps has jumped on the wagon after Kik, the billion ...

Part of that is because many consumer chat bots seem like just another repackaging of an app. You chat with a robot instead of pushing buttons, but you didn’t really get anything new.

Microsoft (MSFT) unveiled a new chat bot in the U.S. on Tuesday, saying it's learned from the Tay experiment earlier this year. Zo is now available on messaging app Kik and on the website Zo.ai.

Chat apps and bots are two hot trends in the publishing industry right now, so it was only a matter of time until someone put the two together. And that is exactly what happened at Facebook's F8 ...