[kictanet] It’s Not Their Pop Idol, but a Bot. Fans Cheer Anyway. - The New York Times

[Mildred Achoch]

And according to Business Insider, 80 percent of businesses want chatbots
by 2020:

http://www.businessinsider.com/80-of-businesses-want-chatbots-by-2020-2016-12?IR=T

Regards,
Mildred Achoch.


On Wednesday, April 5, 2017, kanini mutemi via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> See also Sophie Bot- Kenya's own AI.
>
> https://www.afidep.org/?p=6239
>
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 6:59 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke');>> wrote:
>
>> Listers
>>
>> Welcome to the Brave New World of Artificial Intelligence in the Celeb
>> World..
>>
>> In January, Christina Ausset, a 24-year-old Maroon 5
>> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/m/maroon_5/index.html?inline=nyt-org>
>>  fan in France, spotted an enticing Twitter post from another of the
>> band’s followers: “I just had a conversation with Maroon 5! Awesome!”
>>
>> The interaction, it turned out, had been conducted on Facebook
>> <http://www.nytimes.com/topic/company/facebook-inc?inline=nyt-org>Messenger
>> with Maroon 5’s chatbot <https://www.messenger.com/t/maroon5> — an
>> automated program designed to respond to basic commands. Not exactly a
>> conversation with Adam Levine, Ms. Ausset noted, but it didn’t matter. She
>> now happily talks to the bot, too.
>>
>> Read on:-
>>
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/business/media/its-not-th
>> eir-pop-idol-but-a-bot-fans-cheer-anyway.html?WT.mc_id=Smart
>> Briefs-Newsletter&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=smartbriefsnl&_r=0
>>
>>
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