All About The Bots

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  Paul Katz

  

  How chatbots can help small business

  VentureBeat - Doug Brackbill, Line2

  In case you haven’t noticed, the bots aren’t coming — they’ve already arrived. For ordering tacos, hailing an Uber, or even helping with your healthcare, chances are there’s a chatbot residing in your messaging app of choice, whether that’s Facebook Messenger, Slack, or WeChat. Chatbots aren’t just …

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  Paul Katz

  

  Julia

  Aug 9, 2016

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  Krishna Jonnakadla

  Jul 8, 2016
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  Paul Katz

  

  There are now more than 11,000 bots on Facebook Messenger

  The Verge - Casey Newton

  Developers like them — but do users? It's been nearly three months since Facebook announced a platform for building bots that operate inside its Messenger chat app. The idea, Facebook said, was to connect people more directly to businesses and automate their interactions, for informational or …

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  Paul Katz

  

  A 19-year-old created a free robot lawyer that has beaten 160,000 parking tickets

  Insider Business - Danielle Muoio

  The very first robot lawyer that was designed to challenge parking tickets has been wildly successful since it was launched last Fall. British programmer Joshua Browder, 19, launched the beta version of the bot in London in September. In that month alone, 3,000 people used the service to appeal …

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  Paul Katz

  

  The bot revolution: How conversational interfaces will replace apps

  VentureBeat - Ilya Gelfenbeyn, API.AI

  We’re at the cusp of a sharp rise in devices that have no screen but do have conversational voice controls, such as the Amazon Echo. Smart home and Internet-of-things (IoT) objects that respond to users’ voices will improve and become more intuitive with further iterations and wider …