{"id":24365,"date":"2016-04-07T06:49:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T13:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/taco-bell-wants-you-to-order-food-from-a-chat-bot"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:03:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:03:23","slug":"taco-bell-wants-you-to-order-food-from-a-chat-bot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/taco-bell-wants-you-to-order-food-from-a-chat-bot","title":{"rendered":"Taco Bell wants you to order food from a chat bot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/taco-bell-wants-you-to-order-food-from-a-chat-bot.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CFRAOttawa\/status\/717817969666080768\">clever ways<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/05\/12\/dominos-pizza-twitter-emoji\/\">order food<\/a> online in our day, but this one is decidedly off the wall. Taco Bell is <a href=\"https:\/\/tacobell.com\/feed\/tacobot\">testing<\/a> TacoBot, a chat AI that helps you order (what else?) tacos in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/12\/16\/slacks-app-directory-proves-its-more-than-just-a-chatroom\/\">Slack<\/a> conversation. Think of it as a tasty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/12\/20\/creators-of-zork-to-accept-pioneer-award-at-dice-summit-hide-wi\/\">text adventure<\/a> \u2014 you can ask questions about the menu, customize your order and check your cart. It\u2019s only in a private beta with a few companies at the moment, but you can sign up for a waiting list to have your Slack team give TacoBot a try. Just think \u2014 you could have tacos sent your way while you\u2019re stuck in a planning session.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/04\/06\/taco-bell-slack-chat-bot\/\">http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/04\/06\/taco-bell-slack-chat-bot\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve seen some clever ways to order food online in our day, but this one is decidedly off the wall. Taco Bell is testing TacoBot, a chat AI that helps you order (what else?) tacos in a Slack conversation. Think of it as a tasty text adventure \u2014 you can ask questions about the menu, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24365","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67787,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24365\/revisions\/67787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}