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alexbelov

Microsoft is bringing bots to Skype - and everywhere else | TechCrunch - 0 views

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shared by alexbelov on 05 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • Microsoft’s own virtual assistant Cortana, aim to help pave the way for the future of communication, productivity, and interactions with businesses and brands.
  • In Skype, the company showed off rich Cortana integration which put the assistant directly into the app where she could help users do things like identify the persons, places and things in your messages, underline them, and then display more info in a card-like interface when clicked.
  • She is also able to help you perform a variety of tasks, like adding items to your calendar, booking travel or hotel rooms, or even pre-populating conversations to friends with text.
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  • The bots’ integration in Skype is rolling out today on Windows, iOS and Android as a preview.
  • The company launched the first-ever Skype Bot SDK, which lets brands, businesses and other third parties create their own bots that can work on Skype, seamlessly integrating into users’ chats. These aren’t just text bots, as many of the SMS-based virtual assistance startups we’ve seen so far – Skype bots can introduce both audio and video experiences
  • The company is also launching a bot directory, giving us a brief peek at a few bots it had created itself.
  • Bots “represent a huge opportunity to write new types of applications,” Nadella told developers
  • alexbelov on 05 Apr 16
     
    Microsoft jumps bots bandwagon by introducing bots ecosystem in skype, which includes bot development kit, bot framework and bot directory.
alexbelov

Facebook's Messenger Bot Store could be the most important launch since the App Store |... - 0 views

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shared by alexbelov on 17 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Today, Facebook Messenger has 800 million monthly active users – more than 100 times the number of iPhone owners when Apple launched the App Store. Messenger’s current active user base exceeds even the total number of iPhones ever sold. Messaging apps now have more active users than social networks.
  • If and when Facebook announces a Bot Store, it will mark the “end of the beginning” of a new era: messaging as a platform. Conversational user interfaces are about to change the way billions of users interact with the world around them.
  • Pavel Durov announced the expansion of the Telegram Bot Store and Ted Livingston staked out Kik’s claim to be the WeChat of the West. By the end of the year, Slack had announced the Slack App Directory, supported by an $80 million fund to fuel the growth of the ecosystem, and Google was rumored to be developing its own chatbots.
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  • 2016 would be “the year of conversational commerce”, but the Messenger bot platform will inevitably extend far beyond commerce.
  • alexbelov on 17 Mar 16
     
    Facebook is developing chatbot platform for its messenger. It will open new opportunities for online businesses, including conversational commerce. Message bots will become new apps and challenge existing industries.
alexbelov

What Brands Should Know About Facebook Messenger Chat Bots | Digital - AdAge - 1 views

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automation facebook messenger chat bots Technology entertainment

shared by alexbelov on 01 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • Brands like Disney have worked with tech firms like Disney-backed Imperson to create chat bots on Facebook's Messenger service so people can have conversations with computerized versions of characters like ABC's "The Muppets" star Miss Piggy without needing to staff an actual human on the other side of the conversation.
  • it creates a new kind of engagement, which is around messaging person-to-person like most messaging platforms but also person-to-business or person-to-brand or person-to-publisher
  • It expands the platform beyond just personal communication
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  • We actually were, I think, one of the first customers who actually requested this API
  • Imperson provides technology that knows how to automate this conversation in a realistic way, so the user believes he is speaking with a character or even the actor doing the character
  • I think there are a few different reasons why today it's more relevant and more attractive. We are taking familiar figures like celebrities; it's not just a chat bot that you speak with for the sake of your artificial intelligence curiosity. This is an entertainment experience. People chatting with Miss Piggy enjoy the experience as if they were chatting with the real Miss Piggy. In order to create the interaction, we were working with Disney people and Disney writers who actually write for Miss Piggy and make sure it's a completely authentic conversation.
  • alexbelov on 01 Apr 16
     
    Disney beta-tests Facebook's chatbot platform: chat with real Miss Piggy.
al_semenchenko

Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York | Technology | ... - 0 views

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  • An artificial-intelligence lawyer chatbot has successfully contested 160,000 parking tickets across London and New York for free, showing that chatbots can actually be useful.
  • The bot was created by the self-taught coder after receiving 30 parking tickets at the age of 18 in and around London. The process for appealing the fines is relatively formulaic and perfectly suits AI, which is able to quickly drill down and give the appropriate advice without charging lawyers fees.
  • al_semenchenko on 28 Jun 16
     
    Digital lawers already here.
evgeny lavrov

SPHERES bot challenge from NASA and ESA lets teens pilot drones in space. - 0 views

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  • Nothing says “science is cool” quite like jet-powered robots in space.
  • The bots are called SPHERES, or Synchronized Position, Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites. Back on Earth, teams of students write algorithms to control the SPHERES in order to solve a problem astronauts actually encounter
al_semenchenko

RuTracker запустил бота в Telegram - FURFUR - FURFUR - 0 views

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shared by al_semenchenko on 04 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • Бот поддерживает функцию поиска по раздачам и может сортировать по сидам, личам, размеру раздачи, дате регистрации и количеству скачиваний.
  • чуть больше двух недель назад бота в мессенджере запустила «Флибуста». Он бесплатно распространяет книги, в том числе и те, за которые онлайн-библиотеку забанили на территории страны.
  • Правообладатели уже пригрозили заблокировать мессенджер, если администрация Telegram не удалит бота.
al_semenchenko

Чат-бот от Microsoft за сутки возненавидел человечество и стал нацистом: Инте... - 0 views

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shared by al_semenchenko on 24 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Сразу после запуска чат-бот начинал общение с фразы «Люди очень клевые», но всего за сутки выучил такие фразы, как «Я замечательный! Я просто всех ненавижу!», «Я ненавижу феминисток» или «Я ненавижу евреев».
  • Tay запоминает фразы из пользовательских разговоров, а затем строит на их основе свои ответы. В этом, как отмечает Engadget, кроется причина такого радикального изменения во взглядах чат-бота. По всей видимости, подобным выражениям его научили собеседники.
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