Botwiki site updates, new bots, and events.
📅 March 21, 2016 in Site updates
We’re meeting today to edit Botwiki, together!
Bots, libraries and resources
- TechCrunch launched their own Telegram bot
- and Digg has a Slack bot now
- yebot will fetch Kanye West’s latest tweets directly to your Slack channel
- Jump City Records produces and releases generative noise albums through a series of Python bots
- @PepitoTheCat keeps you updated on when Pépito, the cat, leaves and comes back home
- @stainedglassbot generates stained glass designs
- and Tracery Writer is a cool little tool for building bots with Cheap Bots Done Quick
Reading list
- You Are The Bot: An intervention for bot developers (via my personal blog)
- As an Entrepreneur, Should You Jump in the SlackBot Fun Train?(getsolid.io)
- What Installing 15+ Slack Bots Taught Me About A Great Onboarding Experience (Ross Simmonds via medium.com)
- Designing Chat for Commerce (Kip via medium.com)
- How Google’s AI Auto-Magically Answers Your Emails (wired.com)
- To Get Truly Smart, AI Might Need to Play More Video Games(technologyreview.com)
- Five Lessons from AlphaGo’s Historic Victory (technologyreview.com)
- How Google’s AI Viewed the Move No Human Could Understand(wired.com)
- AlphaGo is Not the Solution to AI (cacm.acm.org)
- Hey Siri, Can I Rely on You in a Crisis? Not Always, a Study Finds(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
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