With love from my robot: virtual assistants may secretly be emailing you

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 loveIt 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 inter