See also Sophie Bot- Kenya's own AI.

https://www.afidep.org/?p=6239

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 6:59 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Listers

Welcome to the Brave New World of Artificial Intelligence in the Celeb World.. 

In January, Christina Ausset, a 24-year-old Maroon 5 fan in France, spotted an enticing Twitter post from another of the band’s followers: “I just had a conversation with Maroon 5! Awesome!”

The interaction, it turned out, had been conducted on FacebookMessenger with Maroon 5’s chatbot — an automated program designed to respond to basic commands. Not exactly a conversation with Adam Levine, Ms. Ausset noted, but it didn’t matter. She now happily talks to the bot, too.

Read on:-

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/business/media/its-not-their-pop-idol-but-a-bot-fans-cheer-anyway.html?WT.mc_id=SmartBriefs-Newsletter&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=smartbriefsnl&_r=0

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