Should You Bother With Chatbots?
Hype has been running high for companies to embrace these chatty automatons
by KATE ROCKWOOD
Sep 21, 2016
3 minutes
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TWO YEARS AGO, artificial intelligence upstart AppZen built a smartphone-based personal assistant for employees submitting expenses, hoping to sell it to enterprise customers. “It could understand what employees typed, extract the information it needed, and respond in a conversational way,” says co-founder Anant Kale. It was, in other words, a chatbot—a stripped down software program that can talk to customers through
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