{"id":22206,"date":"2016-02-16T16:17:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T00:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/on-chatbots"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:55:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:55:13","slug":"on-chatbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/on-chatbots","title":{"rendered":"On Chatbots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/on-chatbots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chatbots are the \u201cSwans of Bots\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Chatbots, historically maligned as \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weak_AI\">weak AI<\/a>,\u201d are finally transforming from ugly duckling to beautiful swan. According to recent predictions, chatbots (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/startup-study-group\/2016-will-be-the-year-of-conversational-commerce-1586e85e3991#.ohtxrphvk\">#ConvComm<\/a>) will be big. Like, Google-killing big, heralding the end of apps and search as we know it \u2014 or so proclaimed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/parmyolson\/2015\/12\/23\/google-whatsapp-messaging-app\/#35d11f5e7920\">Forbes<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/google-plans-new-smarter-messaging-app-1450816899\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Much ink has been spilled. Startups are spawning and capital is flowing, even in these uncertain times. But what is a chatbot, and what can they actually do? Here are five myths debunked:<\/p>\n<p>Myth No. 1: Chatbots and bots are the same thing!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/02\/16\/on-chatbots\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chatbots are the \u201cSwans of Bots\u201d. Chatbots, historically maligned as \u201cweak AI,\u201d are finally transforming from ugly duckling to beautiful swan. According to recent predictions, chatbots (#ConvComm) will be big. Like, Google-killing big, heralding the end of apps and search as we know it \u2014 or so proclaimed Forbes and The Wall Street Journal. Much [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62848,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22206\/revisions\/62848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}