Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Facebook’s big bot bet”.
I like big butts, and I cannot lie so. Let me drop some truth on you. Gang bots are the word of the day and you’re starting to see them absolutely everywhere. So let’s dig into it.
What is a bot, a Potts, a piece of software that lets you do things you type words into it, using natural language, the software understands, and then it does something the companies are already starting to use this, to do everything from customer service to letting you buy A new pair of shoes – in fact you may have seen a couple weeks ago when Microsoft unveiled its new bot platform and it introduced it to the world using a teenage bot named cave, you could interact with on Twitter. Unfortunately, the tej turned out to be huge. Racist, the more you interacted with it, the worse it got. Microsoft was hugely embarrassed. It wasn’t exactly to start to the bot revolution that some of us had been hoping for, but Sasha.
Oh wait a because there’s a new bot maker in town, it’s Facebook and this week at the FH developer conference in San Francisco. They told us exactly what they have in mind. We think that you should just be able to message a business in the same way, you’d message a friend so today we’re launching a messenger platform, so you can build box for messenger and it’s a simple platform. It’S powered by artificial intelligence, so you can build natural language services to communicate directly with people.
So Facebook’s big idea for BOTS is that they belong inside messenger. I thought we’d had a few of them my messenger and see how they do so. This is Pancho. Pancho is a weather, bot or a weather cache to be more specific, and if you go ahead and ask it what the weather is, apparently it will tell you so you can see I’ve said what’s the weather and it is asking me to tell it where I Live what about Bernal Heights? That’S the neighborhood! I live. What do you mean so I live in Bernal Heights? Is it in San Francisco, California totally hit its response to? How is the weather in Bernal Heights is? May I send you weekday morning, weather up tickets at 8:00 a.m. so I’m not completely baffled by what’s happening inside of this chat pot.
All I wanted to know what’s the weather in my neighborhood and it sent me a picture of a cat on a treadmill and asked me what my new year’s resolutions are. That sounds like I made up a joke, but that was my actual interaction with this lot. Good rule of thumb going forward, never ask a cat, the weather, let’s see what it’s like to order flowers, we can do the Barrington Get Well bear yeah, you keep tapping it because you want to see it and then nothing happens. You can just see a badly cropped picture of a bear and some sugar cookies. What oh you want the note to say I will just go as sorry. I cheated on you with your best friend at your house in your garage. While you were there celebrating your grandma’s 100th birthday, oh now, what’s my billing address all right, I’m just gon na say it. This is a completely exhausted way to order flowers like I’ve. Actually, rather just call somebody at this point. So it’s a cliche when a new technology comes along to say that it’s not ready for primetime but in the case of bots they’re, really not even ready for like afternoon television they’re, not ready to go on Ellen, show I’d, say: they’re ready for Adult Swim midnight Tv something you watch when you’re a little bit stoned or drunk and not expecting very much and that’s surprising, because BOTS are an old technology.
It was 2001 when we were all adding smarter child to our AOL, Instant Messenger and using it to look up movie times in the weather, and so the story with Facebook, messengers BOTS really isn’t how far they’ve come it’s how much farther they have left to go. What’S the difference between a guitar and a fish, what you can’t tuna fish and say I told that joke to my wife and she left me .