<div>And according to Business Insider, 80 percent of businesses want chatbots by 2020:</div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/80-of-businesses-want-chatbots-by-2020-2016-12?IR=T">http://www.businessinsider.com/80-of-businesses-want-chatbots-by-2020-2016-12?IR=T</a><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Mildred Achoch.<br><div><br><br>On Wednesday, April 5, 2017, kanini mutemi via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">See also Sophie Bot- Kenya's own AI. <br><br><a href="https://www.afidep.org/?p=6239" target="_blank">https://www.afidep.org/?p=6239</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 6:59 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke');" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Listers</div><div><br></div><div>Welcome to the Brave New World of Artificial Intelligence in the Celeb World.. </div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">In January, Christina Ausset, a 24-year-old </span><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/m/maroon_5/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Maroon 5." style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank">Maroon 5</a><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">fan in France, spotted an enticing Twitter post from another of the band’s followers: “I just had a conversation with Maroon 5! Awesome!”</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The interaction, it turned out, had been conducted on</span><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/topic/company/facebook-inc?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Facebook Inc." style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank">Facebook</a><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Messenger with</span><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span><a href="https://www.messenger.com/t/maroon5" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank">Maroon 5’s chatbot</a><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> — 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.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Read on:-</span></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/business/media/its-not-their-pop-idol-but-a-bot-fans-cheer-anyway.html?WT.mc_id=SmartBriefs-Newsletter&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=smartbriefsnl&_r=0" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0<wbr>4/03/business/media/its-not-th<wbr>eir-pop-idol-but-a-bot-fans-ch<wbr>eer-anyway.html?WT.mc_id=Smart<wbr>Briefs-Newsletter&WT.mc_ev=<wbr>click&ad-keywords=smartbriefsn<wbr>l&_r=0</a></div><div><br><br><div><span><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br></div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font></font></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.c<wbr>om/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."  ~ Aristotle</span></div><div><br></div><div><span><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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