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"explaining why the world needs yet another bot solution" I'd be interested to hear your take on this. The dozen or so prominent bot startups that popped up ov
by picodguyo 6y ago
"explaining why the world needs yet another bot solution"
I'd be interested to hear your take on this. The dozen or so prominent bot startups that popped up over the last 5 years nearly all ended with acquihires. Even Facebook, who once thought they could create an uberbot to do literally anything, have all but abandoned their bot aspirations.
- softmodeling 6y agoTo begin with, I think creating a general knowledge bot that can talk about everything is an interesting research concept but not a very useful one. Then Xatkit aims to be a very flexible platform that helps you create chatbots on top of any platform you need, more than a concrete solution for a specific set of technologies. For instance, most current solutions are tied to a specific NLU Engine (being DialogFlow, IBM Watson or whatever). Xatkit tries to abstract from the concrete engine and let you define the bot in a more abstract way and deploy the bot on any of them based on your deployment preferences. (this doesn't mean Xatkit provides right now all the connectors you may want, it just means that the architecture of Xatkit was especially designed with this goal in mind, it's open source so it's possible for you to create whatever you need)
- ethbro 6y agoThe embodiment AI folks seem prescient, here. How can chatbots ever mimic human interaction, without experiencing human-ness? We parse incredibly complex dailog exceptions every day because "we made that mistake yesterday" (or "... when we were 5").