I think more than conversational commerce the true power of BOTs will be conversational planning assistance within chat. Imagine a personal assistant always available in your chats with friends that can help you plan dinners by finding restaurants everyone would like, making reservations, booking movie tickets, putting the event on everyone's calendars, sending reminders, giving directions to locations when you leave for the event, etc. now that's powerful and useful.
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#12I think more than conversational commerce the true power of BOTs will be conversational planning assistance within chat. Imagine a personal assistant always available in your chats with friends that can help you plan dinners by finding restaurants everyone would like, making reservations, booking movie tickets, putting the event on everyone's calendars, sending reminders, giving directions to locations when you leave…
I have always wanted this, so badly.
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#13I think more than conversational commerce the true power of BOTs will be conversational planning assistance within chat. Imagine a personal assistant always available in your chats with friends that can help you plan dinners by finding restaurants everyone would like, making reservations, booking movie tickets, putting the event on everyone's calendars, sending reminders, giving directions to locations when you leave…
I have always wanted this, so badly.
Facebook buys MAGIC?
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#14I'm not a Facebook user. I like to think I'm still well-informed as a professional in the industry - i.e., I understand this major platform - because I know what social networking is about and how Facebook works on a technical level. Am I wrong? What don't I understsand by not being a user?
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#15Unless I misunderstand, conversational commerce bots seem to want to solve the problem of the interface between users' natural language and software's logic (i.e., it's an application of NLP).
But I doubt AI will be good enough to do that, and I expect that I'll still have to think about fitting my words to the software's understanding. Why would these bots work better than Siri?
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#16if u have an hour, watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tABT6GdygnI and listen for the distribution strategy part. This is a wide open one.
Can someone provide a narrower indication of where that part occurs?
it's the "Scalable Distribution Model" part of the talk https://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/12... 15:56 but then there's more at end
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#17I remember back in the old days when bots were enabled by open protocols …
Welcome to Walled Garden As A Service, the game where the rules are made up and openness doesn't matter!
That's right, open architectures are like corporate tax laws!
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#18I think he is more on the mark about streaming video than conversational commerce / bots. If you are a regular Facebook user, you can get an idea of where they are headed with the notifications that get greater priority and what is more likely to appear in your feed. I have noticed greater visibility of Events and Live Video streaming. When a friend starts a live stream, I get a notification that shows up on my lock…
Maybe - though interesting that Twitter just beat them to the NFL rights[0], suggests they have a way to go yet, and a clear fight on their hands.
[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-beats-facebook-amazon...
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#19I'm not a Facebook user. I like to think I'm still well-informed as a professional in the industry - i.e., I understand this major platform - because I know what social networking is about and how Facebook works on a technical level. Am I wrong? What don't I understsand by not being a user?
I say all of this who has been out of the Facebook scene for about 4 years, so things might have changed:
At any given point in time Facebook favors certain integrations more than others. By not being a user you are more likely to waste time on integrations that are less useful than other ones. Before you design Facebook integrations you should become a user and observe these things.
Beyond being a user, unless you're also an active developer in the ecosystem I doubt you actually understand Facebook. There's lots of behind the scenes changes that you won't notice as a user but as someone who relies heavily on Facebook traffic, you will notice. So beyond becoming a user, you should also look at other successful companies and see how they handle integrations to get an idea of where the playing field currently stands.
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#20I think more than conversational commerce the true power of BOTs will be conversational planning assistance within chat. Imagine a personal assistant always available in your chats with friends that can help you plan dinners by finding restaurants everyone would like, making reservations, booking movie tickets, putting the event on everyone's calendars, sending reminders, giving directions to locations when you leave…
I have always wanted this, so badly.
Here's how I envision that use case with a bot called JEEVES.
ME: Hey have you guys watched Zootopia yet?
FRIEND 1: Nah I want to but didn't have the time. I'm free tonight if you want to go.
FRIEND 2: Yeah count me in too
ME: JEEVES find us a movie theater close to us that's playing Zootopia tonight.
JEEVES: There are 3 theaters close to all of you that's playing Zootopia tonight. Theater 1 at (map)Location 1 is playing it at 9PM, Theater 2 at (map)Location 2 is playing it at 8:30PM, Theater 3 at (map)Location 3 is playing it at 10:PM
ME: you guys wanna get dinner before the movie?
FRIEND 1: Sure
FRIEND 2: Nah having dinner with GF's parents today.
ME: JEEVES find us some chinese restaurants near Theater 3.
so on and so on.
JEEVES can then book tickets, make a reservation, put the event on calendars, send restaurant location to just the 2 people who agreed to have dinner, send reminder in the group chat, etc.