With love from my robot: virtual assistants may secretly be emailing you
by Nellie Bowles from Technology | The Guardian on (#10HYE)
Digital assistants have grown in both their abilities and adoption in the last few months, learning to pass as people and show empathy - and even love
It started as a normal email exchange with a tech CEO. He was up for a coffee, and passed me to his assistant to find a date. But then it turned a bit strange.
Her emails were too good: all written in the same carefully casual, slightly humourless style. All formatted the same. All sent at socially convincing times. And all at believable intervals from my own messages. But they were off just a little.
