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The long con of #crawd
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Prior to the advent of chatbots, we mostly saw chatbots purely as an add-on to others. You used your Messenger’s mic to ping a Twitter bot, or you’d set up a jitter bot at your own computer. Now, however, is a time where the kitchen sink seems to be being used to build and control other chatbots, like the websites of many businesses who might just as well be in the software business, instead of just providing developers with a few hundred dollars to play with.
Internal communication
In many cases, this kind of codification of internal communication is a good thing, and it certainly seems to have been advantageous to Slack when they decided to move away from the PC by launching their Bot feature within their platform. But there is one aspect of this codification where conversations are actually taking place between people. Rather than people interacting by skill, or by time, you have people setting up something that resembles a Board of Directors meeting and having the whole conference room just show up in their respective avatar and talk about what is going on, for a chunk of time.
This too may be an inevitable change, as we start seeing more and more companies realizing that they have to embrace either automating or dying, their own internal communication systems.
Facebook has already acknowledged this as we’ve witnessed quite the shakeup in their product line as a result of this, but I’m not sure they know how to get into a conversation, or how it will be interacted with.
Vue of Web
Would create a beautiful good “Vue of Web” where devs could collaborate just so far enough to see their idea submitted by other developers make the natural transition from Slack to Medium?
Similarly, when it comes to Slack platforms, there’s still the question of where they fit within Google’s Google Home Platform. Where is Slack’s well-known Rabbit Hashine and “Slack AI” going in a world where Google homemade proper use of the Vision API and the AI will automatically follow you to other platforms like MyFeed with a bot that knows you only as a user, who has the functionality of the Beam Assistant…? This combination of integrations makes very little sense.
That’s all part of the long con. But it’s also a pretty legitimate concern because when businesses ask when and how to incorporate bots within their own internal communication channels, it’s taking away the entire purpose of a conversation, which is creating engagement with users.
So I’d recommend they be very careful about this and just be prepared to suck it up when a lot of them don’t do it well. Either way, I do wish to see progress, I hope to see AI completely engrossing us with stories and personalities and direct, in the way our favorite music artists in the Live Space…
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