Russia’s Tinkoff Bank is famously at the bleeding edge of technology.
So, when Euromoney heard that its new digital assistant, Oleg, could discuss “open-ended topics like the meaning of life”, we were quite excited.
Keen to find out what a bot from the land of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov had to say about existential questions, we asked a couple of Russian speakers with Tinkoff accounts to put Oleg to the test.
Alas, Oleg doesn’t seem to have learned much from the Russian greats.
Joke
To one user who asked for advice on managing a heavy workload, he replied simply: “Study” – but declined to specify what topic.
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