Bots, since your real friends never text you back anyway

If the idea of exchanging information with a sentient-seeming algorithm is your thing (especially if it’s in the form of a naked James Marsden), then you need to check out two cool bot experiments that have popped up in the media this week:

First: Harvard Business Review has built a chatbot that gives you workplace advice on Slack, which is ingenious both in content & platform — co-workers will just think you’re having a lit Slack convo with your ~team~ when you’re actually lowkey getting advice on how to optimize the office snacks offerings.

Second: The New York Times has built a politics chatbot, because apparently there are some ridiculously blessed beings in this lifetime who somehow have not experienced info-vomit and feel like up to receiving need MORE updates on the election??

Meanwhile, the rest of us be like...

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