{"id":24285,"date":"2016-04-05T09:26:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T16:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=24285"},"modified":"2017-04-29T15:46:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T22:46:57","slug":"chat-bots-conversation-and-ai-as-an-interface-by-benedict-evans-ben-evens-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/chat-bots-conversation-and-ai-as-an-interface-by-benedict-evans-ben-evens-com","title":{"rendered":"Chat bots, conversation and AI as an interface \u2014 By Benedict Evans | ben-evens.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1459386365255.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cChat bots tap into two very current preoccupations. On one hand, the hope that they can actually work is a reflection of the ongoing explosion of AI, and on the other, they offer a way to reach users without having to get them to install an app.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ben-evans.com\/benedictevans\/2016\/3\/30\/chat-bots-conversation-and-ai-as-an-interface\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChat bots tap into two very current preoccupations. On one hand, the hope that they can actually work is a reflection of the ongoing explosion of AI, and on the other, they offer a way to reach users without having to get them to install an app.\u201d Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2428],"class_list":["post-24285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","tag-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24285","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\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57061,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24285\/revisions\/57061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}