Mashable rang the SantaPhone line and spoke with Santa's Helper #30012, an automated chat bot whose painfully cute vocals sounded sort of like Alvin and the Chipmunks.

The developer behind @my_ali_bot, which lets you browse products on Chinese e-commerce site MyAliExpress on Telegram, says it took him a week to build the bot, which had about 38,000 users in January.

This article is more than 5 years old. Chat bots are becoming all the rage in online customer service, however, before boarding the bot boat, there are several perspectives companies should consider.

However, what's new is that WABetaInfo spotted a cute little button inside WhatsApp, allowing users to quickly launch the AI chat with a simple tap. What happens when you tap on the button?

Around 16.7 million tweets are sent every hour. We’re willing to wager very, very few of those are as cute as those blurted out by a Japanese bot account. For some reason, @usagipic_bot tweets a ...

-- Microsoft 's teenage chat bot "Tay" is in a time-out of sorts after the artificially intelligent system, which learns from interactions on social media, began spewing racist comments within a ...

A University of South Florida professor created a chat bot to motivate online learners by providing strategies to complete academic work. The chat bot, launched this spring, will undergo updates to ...

Light Bot has been around for a few years - it began as a Flash game in 2008 - but this newer version has been rebuilt for iOS and Android and offers an easy way for kids to learn concepts like ...