Silicon Valley entrepreneur and futurist Martin Ford sees that trend accelerating.

[Note: Spoilers up to the seventh (August 17) episode of Season 2.] Nobody likes themselves in their entirety.

In other words, a chatbot can talk to a fan as if it was a human,” he says via email.

I mean, I was already excited about “Fifty Shades Darker,” but now, I'm about to Alexia La Fata is a Senior Editor.

Xiao Ice is a sophisticated conversationalist with a distinct personality.

She can chime into a conversation with context-specific facts about things like celebrities, sports, or finance but she also has empathy and a sense of humor.

Oddly, many Americans seem less fearful of losing their jobs to a machine than to other people; then again, our hunter-gatherer ancestors competing for survival in a dangerous world of limited resources were never threatened by robots.

The evolutionary wariness that once provided a survival advantage to people most attuned to superficial human differences does not recognize threats from machines, smart or otherwise. workers employed in tasks considered either “non-routine cognitive” and “non-routine manual” has roughly doubled, while those employed in jobs considered “routine cognitive” and “routine manual” has stagnated.

“Fifty Shades Darker” is officially out in theaters, and you know what that means: Groups of thirsty AF girls will gather into theaters across America, disguising their animalistic desires to watch soft-core porn on the big screen as a “fun gal's night out! Which is why this Christian Grey Facebook Messenger chatbot is AMAZING.

She's a proud New Jersey native and Boston College graduate. She's a proud New Jersey native and Boston College graduate.

Entrepreneur Bradley Charvet hopes to open London’s first ‘fellatio cafe’ offering oral sex to men drinking their morning coffee.

(You could also like the bot on Facebook.)Your conversations with “Christian” will be entertaining and, honestly, feel weirdly realistic.

I mean, look at that little Facebook Messenger icon and the way he answered my message! Josh Bocanegra, CEO of Persona Bots, says these bots are a good way to get people excited about a franchise.“Chatbots are super cool because they automate fan engagement through chat.