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TechCrunsh reports that nate.tech fooled their investors by saying they’re using AI and instead used a call center in the Philippines. From their website it looks like you could let nate buy things by sharing (?) the url with the nate app. Maybe there was also a chatbot integration. This all reminds me of GoButler, a german company that had it’s hype around 2015. You could send them a text message and they would do everything for you. Booking a flight, ordering food, planing your next holiday. They even expanded their business to NYC but closed their doors in Germany in 2016. It’s interesting how all the people are always trying similiar things. This time with “AI” (or a Philippines call center). GoButler still has their german instagram account available. And you can buy the gobutler.de domain for around 2000€.