>> In China, consumers are getting used to Alibaba’s AliMe, which coordinates package deliveries over the phone and haggles about the price of goods over chat.

>> In China, consumers are getting used to Alibaba’s AliMe, which coordinates package deliveries over the phone and haggles about the price of goods over chat. I'm surprised by this. Seems like there is a lot going on in real brains when negotiating, much less a computer running some probabilistic algorithm. I'd be interested to see the specifics of how "consumers are getting used to" having a computer talk the price down with a real human seller.