Okay, so Dango is one of those virtual assistants that lives in your chat apps, and this one is based on a neural network that has been trained with millions of examples to understand what emoji mean.

Hands-On With Dango: When Emoji And GIF Prediction Becomes A Fun Science. By Rita El Khoury. Published Jun 13, 2016. ... Before you even start using Dango, the moment you launch the app, ...

Initially, Dango provided only very simple emoji predictions, such as the ones Apple plans to offer: Type “happy” and it predicted a smiling face РЯШР; ...

Exciting news for emoji users out there! The Dango app has been built specifically for your daily messaging needs, suggesting related emojis (and even GIFS!) to capture the essence of your messages.