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by mayank_zuppit 3426 days ago
The reason why initial bots are not successful because they were not better than apps out there and even worst when it comes to complete time to do the same thing.

So IMO, we all must have understood by now, that we were trying to fit wrong use case in chatbots, chatbots are mostly handy when it comes to interacting with user like google search does when next step is not known to a person, they just dig deep, and check out more possibilities and so on.
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owebmaster 3426 days ago
I don't use conversational bots. I find it stupidity to talk with a computer pretending that it is human. By the other hand, bots with commands (like !do-something or /do-something) I think works very well, since always (like the 90s in IRC). Just like a terminal, which is very productive (an UX very common among software developers but not common users).
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mayank_zuppit 3426 days ago
Yes, you are right, it is many a times stupidity to talk to a bot, but again until we do not bring softwares in our natural form of talking/thinking, AI bots will not move forward, so we have to use other ecosystems to help bots grow like i mentioned integrating other common daily to daily services as mentioned in my article.
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