Chatbots are simply computer dialogue programs using artificial intelligence (AI) that carry out conversations with real people either by text or voice interaction. Chatbots are designed to pass the Turing test and convincingly impersonate real people within a human to AI interaction. This A3 explores the promising affordances of chatbots in mobile learning, a brief history of chatbots, how they work, their presences in our daily lives and emergence in the internet of things.