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Facebook Messenger Update Introduces AI for Business Objectives https://smallbiztrends.com/2017/08/facebook-messenger-platform-update.html

What Is Ray Kurzweil Up to at Google? Writing Your Emails https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-ray-kurzweil-up-to-at-google-writing-your-emails/

USAA pilots conversational AI on Amazon Alexa https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/30913/usaa-pilots-conversational-ai-on-amazon-alexa/retail

Why FPS  Video Games are Crazy-Good at Teaching A.I. Language https://www.inverse.com/article/34934-google-deepmind-carnegie-mellon-a-i-3d-shooters-video-games-language

Facebook Acquires Ozlo As Part Of Conversational AI Push https://www.androidheadlines.com/2017/08/facebook-acquires-ozlo-part-conversational-ai-push.html

Elon Musk and linguists say that AI is forcing us to confront the limits of human language https://qz.com/1005275/language-matters-more-than-ever-in-the-age-of-ai/