Author: Yvonne Kiely

  • Chatbots Could Help Learners and Teachers in Language Education

    Chatbots Could Help Learners and Teachers in Language Education

    More and more we find ourselves imagining the ways in which chatbots can assist us in our day-to-day lives. They have synergy with small tasks in our consumer habits and there is general agreement on their use value in ecommerce, healthcare and financial services. We understand that chatbots have commercial benefits, but when it comes…

  • How ‘Chatbot’ Narratives Have Evolved in News Media: 1997-2019

    How ‘Chatbot’ Narratives Have Evolved in News Media: 1997-2019

    It might seem as if words like ‘chatbot’, ‘AI’ and ‘machine learning’ have exploded in news media over the last ten years. That’s because they have and it’s really only in the last five years that the word ‘chatbot’ has become much more widespread and more commonly used by newspapers. Interestingly, it’s only in the…

  • The Biggest Sextech Trends to Be Excited About (and Some Caveats)

    The Biggest Sextech Trends to Be Excited About (and Some Caveats)

    1. On demand companionship and sex positive chatbots The adaptable, malleable and entirely programmable on demand companionship that is being engineered by developers and companies, such as Microsoft, has been decades in the making. At The Chatbot, we’ve explored many aspects of how these programmes are changing, and assimilating into, our lives – in commerce,…

  • Can Sex Chatbots Be Dominant?

    Can Sex Chatbots Be Dominant?

    Can sex with a chatbot ever be rewarding? With humans always having the upper hand, the creation of a sexually dominant chatbot seems fundamentally impossible.