2016 year in review: Bring on the bots!

This is the second post in a five-part series where I review the main legal news and technology covered in 2016. See the others here.

2016 is officially the year of the bot. Facebook launched its messenger chatbot integration and spawned a whole bot development ecosystem. Microsoft inauspiciously launched and then shut down its AI Twitter chatbot Tay to substantial PR and internet fanfare.

The deluge of coverage on bots also included a number of pieces on AI and other bots that are poised to...

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