Articles about chatbot

5 new proposals to regulate AI in Washington state, from classrooms to digital companions

Washington state lawmakers are taking another run at regulating artificial intelligence. The proposals come as Congress continues to debate AI oversight with little concrete action, leaving states to experiment with their own guardrails. Read More

Univ. of Washington lands $10M grant to launch a new center developing gen AI teaching tools

A University of Washington College of Education program that uses AI and chatbots to assist K-12 teachers was selected this… Read More

Chatbots for teachers: Univ. of Washington releases free AI tool for quicker, better lesson plans

Teachers are spending more than 10 hours per week prepping their lesson plans, cutting into time that could be spent… Read More

AI for AP: High school students create tool that acts as tech tutor for advanced placement courses

Frustrated by inadequate resources to help students study for advanced placement courses, two Seattle-area high school teens turned to technology,… Read More

Brains vs. bots in the newsroom: Can AI generate better story ideas than humans can?

Gathered around a conference room table, with one person scribbling on the whiteboard, a group of industry veterans sizzles with… Read More

Microsoft now says AI-powered Bing chatbot is ‘not a replacement or substitute for the search engine’

“We think of it, humbly, as the next generation of search and browsing.” That was a comment by Yusuf Mehdi,… Read More

The future of the information economy is in flux as internet search industry enters new area

Editor’s note: This is a guest commentary from Oren Etzioni, former CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), a… Read More

Arguing with AI: My first dispute with Microsoft’s brilliant and boneheaded Bing search engine

For the past couple days, I’ve been trying out Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing search engine, a chatbot that uses an… Read More

Tech guy in the sky: Seattle entrepreneur takes GeekWire to new heights with epic balloon ride

“It never gets old,” Eliav Cohen said as he raised his iPhone at the sun peeking over the Cascades one… Read More

Shake it off, Microsoft: Brad Smith book recounts run-in with pop star over failed chatbot ‘Tay’

Nothing like an email from Taylor Swift’s lawyers to get your attention during vacation. That was the case for Microsoft… Read More

Stack Overflow uses Microsoft AI tech to create a chat bot that assists software developers

Software developers stuck with a thorny programming problem now have a new option when browsing Stack Overflow: a chatbot built… Read More

Seattle startup ReplyYes joins Disney Accelerator to grow retail chatbot service

ReplyYes has been accepted into the Disney Accelerator’s 2017 class to continue building out its chat commerce platform that allows… Read More

Tune launches ‘tunebot,’ a Slack-powered chatbot that answers queries on marketing data

Interpreting data is a hard job, especially when you need answers on the fly. Tune, the Seattle-based marketing technology company,… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Microsoft vets launch text11, a messaging platform connecting businesses with customers

John deVadoss, Peng Huang, and David Hill have known that they wanted to go into business together for years. They… Read More

Golden State Warriors launch Facebook Messenger bot for fans to use during NBA Playoffs

Golden State Warriors fans now have a new tech-powered assistant at their disposal during the NBA Playoffs. The Bay Area-based… Read More

ReplyYes raises an additional $6.5M for its text message retail platform

ReplyYes, a chat commerce startup that spun out of Madrona Venture Labs, has raised $6.5 million of a $9.3 million… Read More

New Nordstrom mobile chatbot is ready to help shoppers find the perfect holiday gift

Nordstrom is expanding on its efforts to engage with mobile shoppers, using the holiday gift-giving season as an opportunity to launch… Read More

Microsoft tests new AI chatbot ‘Zo’ after shutting down ‘Tay’ earlier this year

Microsoft is back with another AI chatbot. The company is testing “Zo,” as spotted by MSPowerUser, on the Kik messaging… Read More

Amazon and Paul Allen-backed startup launches new product that lets developers create chatbots

KITT.AI is rolling out its newest flagship product. Available today in beta, ChatFlow is a multi-platform framework for creating conversational… Read More

Chatbot pioneer Next IT raising $20M to deploy an army of AI assistants

Before Siri, Cortana and Alexa, there was Next IT and its chatbots: The Spokane Valley company made it possible for… Read More

Chatbot for sports news: theScore launches Facebook Messenger bot

Sports fans, meet chatbots. theScore, a publicly-traded mobile-focused sports media company based in Toronto, today announced that it is the… Read More

Microsoft developing Bing bot that will work with Skype, WhatsApp and text messages

Microsoft’s experiment with AI chatbot Tay may not have gone too well, but the company is still working on other chat… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Polly.ai uses chatbot technology to assess employee happiness

Polly.ai is utilizing chatbots to help managers assess employee happiness. The Seattle-based startup on Tuesday officially rolled out its chatbot product, which… Read More

Conversational AI developer Next IT raises new funding as chatbots take off

The world of chatbots is growing quickly. Microsoft and Facebook both have frameworks to let third parties build bots into their chat services.… Read More

Facebook launches chatbot platform for Messenger to help businesses talk with customers

Facebook today announced a chatbot platform that lets businesses offer automated customer support via the Messenger app, joining a bevy of tech companies building… Read More