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Wherein we discuss bots, machine learning, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and whatnot.Image credit xkcd
What Are Search Engines Telling People About Bots (2017 update)
The world of bots has changed a lot in the past 9 months. Lots of companies have launched, many tens of thousands of bots have been built. And Google are doing their best to organize all this mess into a something intelligible when someone queries "what are bots?" The...
7 Takeaways from O’Reilly Bot Day
I was lucky enough to attend O'Reilly Bot Day in San Francisco. Bot Day was the first "proper" bot conference I've attended. I've hosted and/or attended many bot meetups here in NYC (join Botmakers if you're interested), but the scale and the audience of Bot Day was...
Facebook’s Plans for Messenger, in One Sentence
Let's face it - listening to the talking points from some corporate mouthpiece is usually torture. Except, on incredibly rare occasions, the mouthpiece may let something of substance slip through. Consider this statement from David Marcus of Facebook...
What Are Search Engines Telling People About Bots?
TL;DR - it's not great Search engines are handy. They're good for finding things when you search for those things. They're also really influential in our lives, in surprising ways. In 2015, a study in the hiliariously-acronymed PNAS was published to determine if it...
Where in the World Are People Searching for Bots?
From where I am (New York), there seems to be a cyclone of activity around robots, bots, automation, machine learning, AI, etc. But that would be a prime example of confirmation bias. I'm a nerd who writes about bots, and does machine learning, and...
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