After A Rocky Romance, Can We Commit To Bots With Professional Benefits?

Last summer, eight startups went to camp to make bots more productive and rewarding for consumers and businesses.

Last summer, eight startups went to camp to make bots more productive and rewarding for consumers and businesses.

Declare your lifelong love for Poncho—a weather service personified by a tabby cat in a yellow raincoat that happens to be one of the most successful bots in Facebook Messenger—and it responds with an awww, shucks-like "Hiiiiii~." But unleash a stream of profanity, as some users do, and Poncho puts your relationship on hold.

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