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Could you explain why it is in your best interest to do so? Unless your community-based efforts are focused on "built on Wit", you would be actively lowering th
by tyre 11y ago
Could you explain why it is in your best interest to do so? Unless your community-based efforts are focused on "built on Wit", you would be actively lowering the bar to entry.
From a company standpoint, the commoditization of the GP's comment is directly counter to your incentives as a business.
- trump2016chalk 11y agoThat may be the case but then the onus will be on Wit.ai to evolve in their innovation and remain competitive/ relative. Right now they are offering something that requires less know how and has "better" performance for less time. That is arguably valuable now and if it stops becoming valuable, or anytime before then, they'll need to evolve.
- blandinw 11y agoNot sure I correctly understand your question, but I'll give it a shot. Today, Wit offers many advantages out-of-the-box so you don't have to setup your own solution. As NLP gets more commoditized (e.g. through open-source, open datasets), Wit will have to provide even more value than today to stay relevant. Value can be ease of use, accuracy, etc. That's how the field makes progress. Regarding best interest, if you mean FB's best interest, FB wants more intelligent bots in Messenger, VR, etc. It makes sense to provide the tools to do so. Opening these tools also helps make them better (why is FB open-sourcing React for example?) If you mean the Wit team's best interest, we're always happy to provide better tools to developers and innovate in AI / UX. That's why we started Wit after all :-)
- aapusaam 11y agoWill FB open source Bot Engine too for the betterment of NLP and communities working around it?