Chatbots are obviously the main tech trend we’re talking about in 2016. However, it hasn’t happened just as an overnight success that they’ve become so popular. Instead, chatbots appeared in response to our unwillingness to bother ourselves with the new interfaces all the time and be able to merely use our apps in the most natural for us conversational way.

The loudest chatbots became discussed after Fuse Labs’ (Microsoft) release of Bot Framework on 30th of March, 2016 and slightly later, on the 12-13th of April, 2016 (Facebook Conference) Facebook’s announcement of new API tools for easier building and running bots on Facebook Messenger. Today we already have enough tools to build chatbot with less programming skills and time expenses and run it on one of the most widely used messenger platforms (Facebook, Slack, Kik, Telegram etc.) The questions are what goes next.