Google acquires API.AI, a company helping developers build bots that aren’t awful to talk to

 Google has just disclosed that it has snatched up the team behind API.AI. API.AI provides tools to developers to help them build conversational, Siri-esque bots. As humans, we’re pretty good at communication. If someone says “the girl saw a man with the binoculars”, we can generally use contextual clues to figure out if they meant that the girl saw the man by using binoculars,… Read More