One thing developers or businesses must make sure is to not pose chatbots as people. And also chatbots, even in their modern form, have been here for a while. People have been doing banking and shopping over messenger apps in asia for quite some time.

Your comment about these being in the “fart app” stage is right. I wrote an article on Medium about whether a business needs a Chatbot some time ago to perhaps talk (and maybe not so well or concisely) about this very topic: Does my business need a chatbot?