"ABC News' correspondent Dana Hughes reports from the Mobile Health Summit in Cape Town, South Africa. More than 5 billion people in the world today have cell phones, and they are doing a lot more than just talking." This is an article about how people use ICT to get medical care in places where they wouldn't otherwise get it.
In this interview, Charlie speaks with a Google exec and the Tanzanian business woman whom she is mentoring. They discuss how their conversations led to unexpected opportunity for both womens' businesses. I thought it was interesting how simple conversation between two groups of people that would normally not speak to one another could lead to big tech opportunities for folks in a developing country.
Cleverbot is conversational AI software . It doesn't quite pass the Turing test but "talking" to it can nonetheless be a little eerie, and it's fair to say that Cleverbot is an example of how machines/programs will become even more anthropomorphic. Plus, it has a pretty irreverent sense of humor.