“Chat bots” broke onto the tech scene earlier this year with a torrent of hype, but most have so far failed to live up to it. Part of that is because many consumer chat bots seem like just another ...

A new Slack-killing app called Google Hangouts Chat uses a bot that can watch what you say on your team chats. It works a bit like Apple’s Siri or Amazon Alexa in that it understands natural language.