IDG Contributor Network: How chatbots like Siri will get smarter

Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant and other A.I.-based chatbots provide subpar interactions that are far from being capable of having a conversation with a real-life human assistant. These tentpole features of the Apple, Amazon and Google platforms perform quite well when asked about the weather or when instructed to add a calendar invitation, but they look inept when asked context-specific questions or when needing to carry on a dialogue.
Colin Allen, a professor of cognitive science at Indiana Un