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by rachellaw 3810 days ago
What's fascinating is the bot-bandwagon is mirroring the early app market.

With apps, you downloaded things to do things. With bots, you integrate them into things, so they'll do it for you. (Save extra step laziness)
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WorldMaker 3810 days ago
What worries me is that that this mirroring also applies to the erection of giant walled gardens as well. It seems curious that this current bot-bandwagon has exploded after the XMPP interoperation world imploded. Different APIs now to build bots for Slack, Facebook, Google, Skype, etc...
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rachellaw 3810 days ago
I think it's in-combo with the whole AI/automated personalization as well. It used to be very difficult to do intelligent bots, but now you have tensorflow/caffe/word2vec frameworks that come built-in with NLP

The walled garden thing has always been an issue though. I mean Facebook threw a fit when India turned down their "facebook-only" internet: http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21685292-...

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iofj 3810 days ago
India didn't turn it down, it introduced it, and then other megacorps, Microsoft up front, lobbied until it got outlawed.
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