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Build a Collaborative Chatbot with Google Sheets and TensorFlow

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Re: Build a Collaborative Chatbot with Google Sheets and TensorFlow

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Just a fancier CTRL+F on a FAQ page. But it's quite amazing how easy it has become to use such complicated technologies to build useful products! (To be clear, I am not trying to belittle what was done in the blog post.)

I wish a CTRL+F could be as smart as how OP implemented it with similarity search - Good chrome extension idea ?

A similar feature of soft Ctrl+F is available in the web version of Microsoft Word.

https://mspoweruser.com/find-feature-in-microsoft-word-whole...

Disclaimer: Microsoft employee

Re: Build a Collaborative Chatbot with Google Sheets and TensorFlow

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Please no more chatbots. Use the underlying tech to build a better search engine, but please stop recreating the concept of a search engine in a “chatbot.”

Whats frustrating is chatbots have the opportunity to be better than search. You can hold on to the conversation history as context for the next command and refine a search in a way a single command can't but no one seems to bother. As you say, chatbots are just poor search interfaces.

Chatbots are the wrong metaphor. Having a series of successfully refining queries is useful. Pretending that this happens through a dialogue with an intelligent interlocutor is false and misleading given the current level of technology. And hopefully it stays that way. As a biological human, I'm absolutely not looking forward having silicon & iron competition.

Re: Build a Collaborative Chatbot with Google Sheets and TensorFlow

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I wish a CTRL+F could be as smart as how OP implemented it with similarity search - Good chrome extension idea ?

The first demo of the OpenAI API is a search plugin for Chrome, but I don't think it's actually published. https://beta.openai.com/

Thats pretty cool, I knew they had a call to join the API but not this. Have you tried the plugin?

Re: Build a Collaborative Chatbot with Google Sheets and TensorFlow

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The first demo of the OpenAI API is a search plugin for Chrome, but I don't think it's actually published. https://beta.openai.com/

Thats pretty cool, I knew they had a call to join the API but not this. Have you tried the plugin?

Hah, I wish!

Re: Build a Collaborative Chatbot with Google Sheets and TensorFlow

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post #10
post #9

Please no more chatbots. Use the underlying tech to build a better search engine, but please stop recreating the concept of a search engine in a “chatbot.”

Whats frustrating is chatbots have the opportunity to be better than search. You can hold on to the conversation history as context for the next command and refine a search in a way a single command can't but no one seems to bother. As you say, chatbots are just poor search interfaces.

Its a hard challenge to create bots that have good UX and help users, even without taking context/history into account. A lot of companies are just focusing on getting that right, and delivering that value first.

But I think everyone building bots wants to go beyond that. I work on bots at Intercom and believe we can build bot experiences much better than traditional search.

At the same time, I think google search is heading a conversational direction - context now carries over between queries, and it seems like that naturally trends towards more conversational or agent interfaces.

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