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I don't get the hype behind bots? When are where was it proved that bots as interfaces can be successful?
by vr3690 10y ago
I don't get the hype behind bots? When are where was it proved that bots as interfaces can be successful?
- nemothekid 10y agoI'm assuming they are trying to replicate the success Chinese platforms, like WeChat.
- lowglow 10y agoI think people are conflating bots with something intelligent, some people go so far as to say AI bots, which is very misleading. There's a lot of hype around autonomous agents, with not a lot of understanding.
- shopkins 10y agoEveryone read this [0] and now think it's The Next Big Thing™. That and Slack, I guess? I don't get it either. The nice thing about not typing out requests ("it's not a command-line interface," they all say) to perform virtual actions is that you don't have to type out requests to perform virtual actions. And having different apps and websites for different purposes gives you choice, privacy, and control over who you interact with online. You don't have to get locked in to a platform and hope they never do anything nefarious or user-unfriendly for fear there's nowhere else to turn. But I guess we're the minority. [0] https://medium.com/chris-messina/2016-will-be-the-year-of-conversational-commerce-1586e85e3991 https://medium.com/chris-messina/2016-will-be-the-year-of-co...
- kirykl 10y agoI could see it being useful as an interface for Siri to a website