Tag: bots

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Bank of New York Mellon Corp has developed and deployed automated computer programs, or more than 220 “bots”, across its businesses over the past 15 months seeking more efficiency and lower costs, as the adoption of artificial intelligence technology in banking increases. The 233-year-old custodian bank says its new army […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Earlier this year, engineers at Wal-Mart Stores Inc who track rivals, such as Amazon, online got a rude surprise: the technology they were using to check Amazon.com several million times a day suddenly stopped working. Losing access to Amazon.com Inc’s data was no small matter. Like most big retailers, Wal-Mart relies […]

It seems as if we have suddenly become obsessed with bots (good definition here). Everyone with a customer service operation or a social media channel seems to be rolling out their bots like there is no tomorrow. Yet, the objective is not the bots being rolled out, in the context of an ‘AI, VR, machine […]
Half of all online ads are never seen by a human being, huge amounts of traffic and clicks come from bot networks, and fraud is rampant. The media industry has no shortage of things to worry about. Audiences are going elsewhere, whether it’s to social networks like Facebook or digital-only competitors such as BuzzFeed, and […]
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