Many users have used the app to fill a personal void in their lives. One user customized the avatar after her deceased boyfriend in order to continue a romance cut tragically short. We’re pleased to introduce Ghostbot, the witty text message autoresponder that anyone can add to Burner to handle unwanted, aggressive, or abusive texting [...]

They’ve gotten rid of formal turn-taking as we know it today. They ended the experiment due to the fact that, once the bots had deviated far enough from acceptable English language parameters, the data gleaned by the conversational aspects of the test was of limited value. Researchers at Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Research laboratory conducted a [...]