{"id":24819,"date":"2016-04-19T10:17:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T17:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/the-limits-of-bots"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:04:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:04:23","slug":"the-limits-of-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/the-limits-of-bots","title":{"rendered":"The Limits of Bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-limits-of-bots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some fundamentals to consider when implementing online bots. It truly has to be for companies\/ businesses a cultural, operating model, and business model fit. And, for consumers it is about your own personable fit. Not all bots are created equal meaning no one size fits all. Do your due diligence like you would on any investment as a business and any long term relationship as a consumer.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>A version of this essay was originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/techpinions.com\/the-limits-of-bots\/45098\">Tech.pinions<\/a>, a website dedicated to informed opinions, insight and perspective on the tech industry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve now had two major developer events in a row where chat bots were a significant theme, with both Microsoft\u2019s Build and now Facebook\u2019s F8 focusing on this rapidly emerging new form of interaction with companies and brands. With two such big names behind the trend, it\u2019s easy to get caught up in the hype and enthusiasm these companies obviously share for the technology. But it\u2019s important to stay grounded as we evaluate chat bots as a potential successor to today\u2019s app model.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing to note is that Facebook and Microsoft have strong incentives to pursue the bot vision. Both companies failed to make a meaningful dent in the mobile operating system battle and, as such, find themselves in secondary roles as makers of apps that run on other people\u2019s platforms. This shuts them out of many of the opportunities associated with owning a mobile operating system, and puts them perennially in a secondary position, having to work around the limitations placed on third-party apps and the inherent disadvantages they face relative to pre-installed applications. So it\u2019s not surprising both companies are now embracing what \u2014 in at least some visions of the future \u2014 promises to be the replacement for mobile apps. But it\u2019s important to keep these incentives in mind in evaluating their claims about the potential of bots \u2014 Facebook and Microsoft have a massive vested interest in seeing this trend succeed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/2016\/04\/18\/the-limits-of-bots\/\">http:\/\/recode.net\/2016\/04\/18\/the-limits-of-bots\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some fundamentals to consider when implementing online bots. It truly has to be for companies\/ businesses a cultural, operating model, and business model fit. And, for consumers it is about your own personable fit. Not all bots are created equal meaning no one size fits all. Do your due diligence like you would on any [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24819","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=24819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56345,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24819\/revisions\/56345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}