The recent victory of Google’s AlphaGo over top-tier Go champion Lee Sedol put artificial intelligence back in the public mind, and Google is at the top on the list of companies most likely to produce ...

Microsoft created an artificial-intelligence based chatbot named Tay to engage with young people on Twitter. But within hours of her debut Wednesday, the Internet had stolen the bot's innocence. The ...

The bot, Tay, has a thing for 18- to 24-year-olds because they're all about getting social on their phones. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a variety of ...

A few years ago at its Build developer conference, Microsoft made its conversation as a service (CaaS) offerings the centerpiece of its announcements. This year, Microsoft made some solid advancements ...

Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Microsoft has launched a service for businesses to quickly and easily create a FAQ bot customers can chat with ...

This year, we’ve watched Apple, Google, Facebook, Samsung, Microsoft, and many other tech giants make acquisitions or launch products to get into the bot business. They’re building bot ecosystems ...

Microsoft’s research labs created a new artificial intelligence, or bot, that can draw any image you want based on simple descriptions. The company says this bot can draw anything in pixel form ...

Tomorrow, Facebook is expected to roll out new bot-related programming interfaces and possibly new chatbots of its own at its F8 developer conference. Microsoft recently used its own Build developer ...

BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

Microsoft introduced the Azure Bot Framework more than two years ago and companies have been building chatbots for a variety of scenarios ever since. Today, the company made generally available the ...