Google’s Duplex Uses A.I. to Mimic Humans (Sometimes) by Brian X. Chen and Cade Metz via @nytimestech

In the free Google Duplex service, bots call restaurants and make reservations. These bots are pretty impressive, except for when the bot is actually a person.

This is really interesting and definitely the way things will develop going forward.

Meet the little-known group inside of Google that's fighting terrorists and trolls all across the web by Julie Bort via @BIUK

Here's a look at the team at Alphabet that interviews ISIS defectors, protects news and political websites from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and combats radicalism.

This is a great initiative and something that is not widely known - you certainly don't see it publicised on the main news channels.

INFOGRAPHIC: The bot platform ecosystem by Jon Bruner via @OReillyMedia

A look at the artificial intelligence and messaging platforms behind the fast-growing chatbot community

Wow I had no idea there were so many of them.