Botwiki Updates #15

Monthly Bot Challenge

The bot submissions for the January Monthly Bot Challenge are in and ready for your vote! Check out all the submitted bots and vote for your favorite one here.

The voting will be open until the end of Sunday (Eastern Time).

And it is also time to announce the theme for February:

EMOJI 😂

For inspiration, check out the existing emoji-based bots already on Botwiki.

Bots, libraries and resources

• the folks at Fusion made a bot that “shows you everyone Donald Trump retweets”
• @BestOpinionPoll collects opinions via Twitter polls
• …and it also inspired @pkmnpoll
• @feelingoldbot will make you feel old
• @a_comcast_user automates its creator’s customer complaints
• @catsnacks lets you “explore the universe of adorable cat faces”
• @captain_markov generates space captain logs
• @_blackobs is “broadcasting live from covert surveillance cameras, one midnight observation at a time”
• and @alltartans generates tartan patterns

Oh and @Slam140 is not really a new bot, but I like it too much not to mention it 🙂

Reading list

• What Is Zero UI? (And Why Is It Crucial To The Future Of Design?)(fastcodesign.com)
• AI Benchmark Will ask Computers to Make Sense of the World(technologyreview.com)
• Google’s AI Masters the Game of Go a Decade Earlier Than Expected(technologyreview.com)
• Microsoft Open Sources Its Artificial Brain to One-Up Google (wired.com)
• Siri, Alexa and Other Virtual Assistants Put to the Test (nytimes.com)
• To Make AI More Human, Teach It to Chitchat (wired.com)
• Cortana now scans your emails to make sure you’re keeping promises(theverge.com)
• How Marvin Minsky, a pioneer of artificial intelligence who died on Sunday [last week], still influences the field today (technologyreview.com)
• Marvin Minsky – Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence (PDF, 1961)
• We Asked a Robot to Write an Obit for AI Pioneer Marvin Minsky (wired.com)
• Deep Learning with Spark and TensorFlow (databricks.com)
• A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning