We live in the future and, sometimes, we don’t even know it.We use tiny handheld devices to help us with everything – from setting alarms to talking to people face-to-face – sometimes when they’re oceans away!Or CNN could send you a “daily digest” of stories that match your interests, and skip the topics you don’t care about.Zuckerberg explained that with AI and natural language processing combined with human help, people will be able to talk to Messenger bots just like they talk to friends.Our computer chatbot Do-Much More won the 2009 Loebner Prize competition, widely regarded as the World Championship for conversational software.

They might have brought either condition on themselves -- we can understand only too well how people might poison or otherwise debilitate themselves through irresponsible use of their own scientific knowledge, or how they might reduce their numbers in the same way. According to this story, the very early Romans were a bunch of exiles and renegades, mostly male, and decided they wanted some women.Conversation with a possible Tinder bot But on dating app Tinder, bots are a particularly big problem. I was first alerted to the problem on another fella's Tinder bio.It was one line, stating something along the lines of "I won't message anyone because I'm tired of bots."Then I asked other guy friends whether bots on Tinder were so prevalent as to warrant someone devoting their bio to complaining about them.So they killed off the males of the Sabine tribe and dragged off the females. We would immediately have started negotiating in an attempt to get their Science, and our whole culture would have been turned upside down.No, the Romans were not exactly jolly good fellows; so why should we expect the aliens to be? It may well be that by choosing abductions, and (as it seems) attempting to suppress the memories of the victims, they are actually choosing the lesser of two evils.