Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the impacts of computing & technology in manufacturing. This article is more than 5 years old. Chat bots are ...

Bots are applications that are designed to respond to conversational language. The aim is to create services -- whether that's the ability to order a pizza or to enter a meeting in a calendar -- where ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Microsoft has filed a patent which raises the intriguing ...