[palakchokshi]

Thanks for responding to my questions. I like this discussion so I hope you won't mind me continuing it a bit further 1. Your response is valid for a developer/team creating a bot once standards are in place. This is not the case right now so any bots created right now will need to be refactored.

3. Your response is valid when a meta-bot is tracking bot usage and user feedback on bots. That's what I would call a warm ranking. However cold ranking is when a meta-bot is just starting up and has no usage data about the bots.

4. Even working as a pipe the meta-bot would need to figure out how to pipe the query to a bot especially consider this scenario: The user has asked "Book me 2 tickets and a hotel in San Diego for May 15th". The meta-bot has determined this is a travel query and found that Bot A is highest ranked for travel queries. It pipes the query to Bot A. However Bot A does not understand how to process this query because it excels at processing queries like "Book me 2 economy tickets and a 3 to 4 star hotel for 3 nights in San Diego" and it received high satisfaction ratings when it was queried like that. However in this vague query scenario Bot B does a much better job but the meta-bot won't know about it.

This is fascinating. I have an Amazon Echo and ever since I got it when it was not widely available I've been fascinated with the potential of it and Amazon went in the direction that I predicted it would with that. However Amazon Echo still uses APIs to interact with services and provides a nice NLP interface to it. This is a friction point for getting new things in the Echo and I have been wondering how to remove this friction.