AI and chatbots is the biggest trend in tech this year, but I’m starting to get déjà vu from when Facebook launched a bot platform for Messenger in 2016 and we thought we were going to start using chatbots for everything. Carrot Weather now has a ChatGPT-based chatbot, which reminds me of Poncho the “weathercat” bot I used back then. Here’s a throwback to our 2016 episode of What’s Tech all about the rise of bots that year.