BAT BOTS TO THE RESCUE

BAT BOTS TO THE RESCUE

TECHNOLOGY

Microsoft lets shopping bots loose in a sandbox

Do you think it’s time to turn an AI agent loose to do your procurement for you? As that could be a potentially expensive experiment to conduct in the real world, Microsoft is attempting to determine whether agent-to-agent ecommerce will really work, without the risk of using it in a live environment. Earlier this week, a team of its researchers launched the Magentic Marketplace, an initiative they described as an “an open source simulation envi…