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Mein Wort in Bots Ohr

(My word in bot's ear)

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Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 29.6.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, emojis, misunderstanding, research/study
Summary | Chatbots are currently exploding. Some say that by 2020 humans will communicate with chatbots more than with other humans. Chatbots are digital chat partners that help organize one's schedule, keep track of shopping lists, can help book holidays, and provide various other information from within a mesaging app. Polls show, however, that only one in four people would consider using a chatbot right now. That may be because they do not understand all questions yet and there is room for improvement. They are designed to be great digital conversationalists using a lot of emojis.
Image Description | An illustration visualizing the use of many chatbots while shopping at a grocery store.

Mein Heim, mein Google

(My home, my Google)

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Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 19.5.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, marketing, privacy, texting
Summary | On Google's Innovation presentation, they have presented their new products. Everything is largely chatbot-based, they are coming out with a home assistant much like Amazon's Echo and some new Messaging apps through which businesses can offer in-app services, for instance restaurant reservations. The Messaging apps are also supposed to be able to suggest appropriate responses to content. Privacy is also an important topic, all these innovations are designed with maximum security in mind.
Image Description | Getty Images of Google representatives presenting innovations.
Image Tags | male(s)

Oh mein Bot!

(Oh my bot!)

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Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 2.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Facebook messenger offers a lot of chatbots. They are however not very good - yet. They are most useful for finding out simple information quickly, quicker than if one were to google, say, the weather forecast. Developers are constantly working on improving chatbots. The most quickly developing technology is voice recognition so that people can speak with chatbots.Contrary to science fiction belief however, programmers have no intentions of making chatbots seem as human as possible - they should be efficient not mistaken for an actual person.
Image Description | Getty image of a CGI woman with a tablet.
Image Tags | female(s), tablet

Hey, du Mensch!

(Hey, you human! )

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Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 15.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, texting
Summary | Facebook has recently followed the footsteps of other large companies and implemented a chatbot in its messenger. Chatbots as conversational user interfaces are increasingly popular because smartphone users are reported to grow tired of having to download so many different apps. By enriching a social media service such as Facebook with a chatbot, users can enquire about things (e.g the weather) without changing platforms and using a mode that is familiar and comfortable for users: casual texting. The article however criticizes that chatbot technology is not very advanced and that it does not resemble human interaction yet.
Image Description | Photograph of a man texting in front of the Facebook Messenger logo, and screenshot of a Messenger chat.
Image Tags | Facebook, logo, male(s), smartphone, text

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