Botwiki Updates #25
The chat bot-powered game Detective is now open source 🙂
I announced the winner of the March 2016 Monthly Bot Challenge, who will be showcasing her bot at the Art of Bots event in London on April 15 and 16, hosted by the sponsor of the challenge, AND.
I also officially announced Knight-Mozilla OpenNews as the sponsor of the current Monthly Bot Challenge – they are also hosting this year’s #botweek.
Bots, libraries and resources
- @WizardGenerator is one of those bots with pretty self-descriptive names
- @lazyset creates Spotify playlists
- @BotgleArtist paints pictures inspired by @Botgle
- @dirtywatervt tweets about sewage overflows in Vermont
- @superdeathmatch lets you vote as Super Heroes and Villains battle it out
- Postcards Bot lets you send a real postcard from Telegram
- “meet TacoBot, the new Taco Bell robot made for Slack“
- @ChezGenerate has some suggestions on what to cook
- and @egressmethods generates little rhymes 🙂
Reading list
Last week was pretty rich with bot-related news, and it was hard to pick the best!
- The next hot job in Silicon Valley is for poets (washingtonpost.com)
- Queer Your Bots: The Bot Builder Roundtable (autostraddle.com)
- Chat app Kik launches a bot store and anyone can make bots for it(techcrunch.com)
- Line is the latest mobile messaging app to introduce bots(techcrunch.com)
- What is a chat bot, and should I be using one? (theguardian.com)
- The Human Looking to Put More Humanity Into Microsoft’s Bots(recode.net via bot.watch)
- Terrifyingly Convenient: A.I. assistants can give you the news, order you a pizza, and tell you a joke. All you have to do is trust them—completely.(slate.com)
- As Messaging Apps Boom, Brands Tiptoe In (nytimes.com)
- Businesses Get Their Chatbots Ready For Facebook Messenger(forbes.com)
- Why Bots are the Next Industrial Revolution (the Kip team via medium.com)
- Bots shouldn’t be scaled-down versions of existing products — Towards a bot-native UX (Alexander Weidauer via medium.com)
- Could conversational UI make government more user-friendly? (Olivier Kamanda via medium.com)
- How ‘chatbots’ could change the balance of power in tech(businessinsider.com)
- Messenger vs Skype vs Slack vs Telegram: How to spot the winners(Michael Vakulenko via medium.com)
Events
The 2016 Bot Summit took place in London this Saturday, check out the video and some of the slides!
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