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"Based on a 20-month study, Solve Media found that a projected 10 percent of all online traffic isn't human. Between January 2011 and August 2012, the company observed 100 million unique visitors a month across 5,000 publishers and found that one out of every ten users wasn't a user at all, but a bot. "

Bullshit, I think it's closer to the 54% claim: http://socialtimes.com/bots-cord-cutters-bad-news-video-advertising_b147136

I say we build a self learning bot to take our jobs

"The robot is built using the Pepper companion robot, IBM Watson's artificial intelligence systems for natural language, and Panasonic's in-flight data and displays, along with Here Maps indoor navigational data. It isn't just for in-flight use. The robot can check in passengers at the gate, scan their tickets, and then circulate in a plane or wait at the end of a flight to tell passengers - in their own language - which gate they need to go to for a connecting flight."

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smart app! uses "bots" to scour the web, sites like yelp and citysearch, and indexes info to give recos, unlike amazon's model of friends of yours like this so you should like it too 

"Researchers from the University of Oslo have designed bots that can adapt to unforeseen problems and even 3D-print new parts for themselves."