Botwiki site updates, new bots, and events.
Posted 5 years ago in Site updates
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)
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