Happy Valentine’s Day! This is Cupid, ready to answer all your questions about love, sex and the weird friends who brought me to life. Are you ready to feel the love?
This was the very first question uttered by the very first chatbot I’d ever built. Cupidbot’s introductory question was also a great question for me, a chatbot skeptic: Was I ready to feel the love toward chatbots, the notionally intelligent conversation partners that now appear in instant-messaging apps like Facebook Messenger, voice-controlled virtual assistants...