Spy Chat The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been stepping up its efforts to keep up with advances in AI — and has developed a particularly spy-tastic way of using chatbots. As the New York Times reports, the CIA has been quietly developing a chatbot that helps analysts "talk to" foreign leaders and predict how they may react in certain situations.  To be fair, this kind of behavior-predicting analysis has been the bread and butter of the agency's behind-the-scenes grunts for forever. Instead of painstakingly compiling "profiles" on world leaders based on public information and gathered intelligence, however, those analysts will engage […]