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Remember when 2016 was the year of the bot?
AI and chatbots is the biggest trend in tech this year, but I’m starting to get déjà vu from when Facebook launched a bot platform for Messenger in 2016 and we thought we were going to start using chatbots for everything. Carrot Weather now has a ChatGPT-based chatbot, which reminds me of Poncho the “weathercat” bot I used back then. Here’s a throwback to our 2016 episode of What’s Tech all about the rise of bots that year.
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