Botwiki Updates #11

Happy New Year!

I started off 2016 with a radical update to the design of Botwiki, which now sports a sidebar! Go check it out 🙂

Also, the first Monthly Bot Challenge officially started! Plus, you have a few more days to submit your entry to the Algorithmia Shorties Contest, and as a reminder, I’m collecting feedback on Botwiki and all the related bot-projects 🙂

Bots, libraries and resources

• @someboxes tweets pictures of boxes as part of a test of new Cheap Bots Done Quick functionality
• @ArtListsBot has a “list for every artist”
• @firstprbot tweets every time someone opens their first open source pull request on GitHub
• @lacrashbot documents all the injury-collisions that were reported in Los Angeles County in 2014
• Joel Grus has a six-part series on making Twitter bots with node.js, Python, Purescript and Amazon AWS
• And Textbelt is a pretty interesting service for sending free SMS messages you can host yourself

Reading list

• Mark Zuckerberg’s challenge in 2016 is to build an AI butler like in ‘Iron Man’ (businessinsider.com)
• What Robots and AI Learned in 2015 (technologyreview.com)
• Yelp Prison Review Faxbot (lav.io)
• Why 2015 Was a Breakthrough Year in Artificial Intelligence(bloomberg.com)
• Slate’s Seven Favorite Twitter Bots of 2015 (slate.com)
• 5 Robot Trends to Watch for in 2016 (technologyreview.com)
• Automation Should Be Like Iron Man, Not Ultron (queue.acm.org)
• Artificial Intelligence Finally Entered Our Everyday World (wired.com)
• AI100: One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence(ai100.stanford.edu)
• How I Learned To Code Neural Networks In 2015 (Per Harald Borgenvia medium.com)
• I have five digital ‘personal assistants’ and still can’t get anything done(washingtonpost.com)
• Attention and Memory in Deep Learning and NLP (wildml.com)