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Will Google release a chatbot in 2016?

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The community gave this a 31% chance, and it resolved No.

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Opened:

Aug 1, 2016

Closes:

Sep 15, 2016

Resolved:

Jan 1, 2017

Spot Scoring Time:

Aug 2, 2016

Economy & Business

Computing and Math

Artificial Intelligence

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