This Conversation Is Going Nowhere
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This Conversation Is Going Nowhere
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#2"The technology to make AI-powered assistants truly useful is still far out of reach, and people aren't rushing to close that gap by adapting their behavior."
Exactly; if you build a bot with the intention of relying 100% on NLP, you're asking for trouble. But I fail to see how that fact leads to chatbots being useless when there are plenty of tools available for guiding necessary optimizations that can lead to a much better experience.
When websites were bad we turned to tools like Google Analytics to make website development data driven -- we didn't stop building them.
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#3"The technology to make AI-powered assistants truly useful is still far out of reach, and people aren't rushing to close that gap by adapting their behavior." Exactly; if you build a bot with the intention of relying 100% on NLP, you're asking for trouble. But I fail to see how that fact leads to chatbots being useless when there are plenty of tools available for guiding necessary optimizations that can lead to a muc…
To be fair, regular people use websites. Regular people do not use chatbots in significant numbers
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#4"The technology to make AI-powered assistants truly useful is still far out of reach, and people aren't rushing to close that gap by adapting their behavior." Exactly; if you build a bot with the intention of relying 100% on NLP, you're asking for trouble. But I fail to see how that fact leads to chatbots being useless when there are plenty of tools available for guiding necessary optimizations that can lead to a muc…
To be fair, regular people use websites. Regular people do not use chatbots in significant numbers
I don't disagree but how is that relevant?
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#5Chatbots should be used to augment humans, not replace them.
For example, one customer service rep can hold discussions with hundreds of people with the help of AI, rather than just 10-20 without.
AI is an augment, not a replacement.
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#6I've thought for some time now that the real killer app for natural language assistants—especially voice activated assistants like Alexa, perhaps slightly less suited for text-based chatbots—lies in short, episodic, choose-your-own-adventure-style games. The more I think about it, the more I'm not really sure why this isn't a thing yet, and why we haven't seen a resurgence in the popularity of interactive fiction—albeit this time for the masses, and not necessarily limited to those inclined to go load up a copy of Zork.
And content creation is more accessible than ever. I mean, have you seen an example of what the source code for an Inform7 game looks like?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform#Inform_7_programming_la...
To reiterate, it almost seems crazy that there isn't a massive catalog of $0.99 serials that you can play through in 45-minute chapters while cooking, driving down the road with the family or on the way to work, etc.
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#7Dear people who have product blogs like this: Please put a global header on your blog that says "X is a Y that does Z." In this case, "Digit is a service that helps you automatically save money based on your income and spending." That way, we get some much-needed context when we stumble across your blog articles talking about what you've learned by building and selling your product.
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#8I've thought for some time now that the real killer app for natural language assistants—especially voice activated assistants like Alexa, perhaps slightly less suited for text-based chatbots—lies in short, episodic, choose-your-own-adventure-style games. The more I think about it, the more I'm not really sure why this isn't a thing yet, and why we haven't seen a resurgence in the popularity of interactive fiction—alb…
I've often thought the same. Zork is the path to a conversational bot that people find it worthwhile to talk to.
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#9I've thought for some time now that the real killer app for natural language assistants—especially voice activated assistants like Alexa, perhaps slightly less suited for text-based chatbots—lies in short, episodic, choose-your-own-adventure-style games. The more I think about it, the more I'm not really sure why this isn't a thing yet, and why we haven't seen a resurgence in the popularity of interactive fiction—alb…
Oh man. I've had 0 interest in any of the voice activated assistants so far. But this would be the killer app that would get me on board.
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#10I've thought for some time now that the real killer app for natural language assistants—especially voice activated assistants like Alexa, perhaps slightly less suited for text-based chatbots—lies in short, episodic, choose-your-own-adventure-style games. The more I think about it, the more I'm not really sure why this isn't a thing yet, and why we haven't seen a resurgence in the popularity of interactive fiction—alb…
This is such a great idea.
Apparently some exist:
https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/2/27/14643756/text-adv...