The Hi Poncho chatbot available in Facebook Messenger tells you the weather around you.
For example, Digit helps you manage your money by showing your bank balance, upcoming bills and helping you save money through text messages. Today's bots can help us order food, shop for clothes, save money and find restaurants. In this context, we're talking about chatbots, which can hold a conversation with you to accomplish a task. And who can forget Tay, the teenage chatbot designed by Microsoft who wound up tweeting racist and offensive messages?īots are everywhere in technology, ranging from malicious bots that come with a virus to search engine spiders that crawl the Internet looking for new Web pages to add.
Siri and Cortana are bots, as was Microsoft's Clippy and AOL Instant Messenger's SmarterChild. Specifically, a bot is an application that performs an automated task, such as setting an alarm, telling you the weather or searching online. Imagine texting a number to order pizza and having it delivered without ever talking to a real human - that's what bots are all about.
Let this primer take you through everything you need to know about bots and why they matter now. Bots made a splash at Facebook's developer conference in April and now, despite being around since the beginnings of the Internet, they are getting their time in the spotlight. You've probably heard about bots a lot lately, how they are here to make our lives easier and replace apps.
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