Botwiki Updates #21

Announcing speakers for the upcoming Botwiki Edit-a-thon!

Check out the agenda on botwiki.org 🙂 Make sure you RSVP over at the event’s page on meetup.com!

And once again, huge thanks to the sponsor of the event, Gyro 👏👏👏

Bots, libraries and resources

• Uzbek external labor migration body launched a Telegram bot that “allows users to download various forms and letterheads [and] find out meeting time of the management of the agency”
• @duffpunk_ borks every six hours
• @sunrisebot helps you keep on top of all those sunrises
• @_statbot turns you into a video game character
• @donorschamps helps  @DonorsChoose projects across the finish line
• ☁☁☁
• 🚂🚋🚋🚋
• 🚎 🚙 🚌
• @therealmuseum exposes the corporate structure of museums.
• @reflectionbot provides “moments of mindfulness, reflection, and casual Socratic inquiry for your twitter feed”
• @littlehumanbot generates…little humans?
• @GlitchLogos posts awe͞şoḿe̢ ́co̧rpo̢r̴àţe͢ lo̧gos
• and Spotbot is a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs

Reading list

• We’re in a Bot Gold Rush (mixpanel.com)
• Using Markov Chains to Build Automatic Donald Trump (Filip Hráček via filiph.github.io)
• CreativeAI: On the Democratisation & Escalation of Creativity(ArtificialExperience via medium.com)
• Chris Messina’s video from his SXSW panel on bots, AI & the future of conversational UI
• Google’s AI Is Battering the Go World Champion in Style(technologyreview.com)
• How politicians should use Twitter bots (slate.com)
• Prompt debuts “a command line for the real world” (techcrunch.com)
• The Echo From Amazon Brims With Groundbreaking Promise(nytimes.com)
• Hosting Slack Integrations (The Slack Developer Blog on medium.com)
• Serverless Slackbots Powered by AWS (localytics.com)
• Implementing Human-like Intuition Mechanism in Artificial Intelligence(arxiv.org)
• The State of the AI market in 2015: A focus on exits (a presentation by Nathan Benaich)
• Daniel Doubrovkine gave a talk entitled “Your First Slack Bot Service” at the first New York Slack Meetup