Why Bots, Why Now - OSCON

OSCON talk for All the Bots day, May 17, 2016

Transcript

1. Why Bots? Why now? What you should know. OSCON, All the Bots Austin, TX, USA Mike Brevoort 17 May 2016
2. Mike Brevoort Founder, Beep Boop (R&P Venture) @mbrevoort beepboophq.com
3. Beep Boop is a ridiculously simple hosting platform for your Slack and Messenger bots
4. Why Bots? Why Now?
5. Rise of Messaging
6. Increased availability of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning renaissance
7. “Smartphones brought a step change in the level of abstraction and simplicity in UIs. AI will do the same again. - @BenedictEvans
8. 4th Generation Platform Opportunity
9. Meta-Platforms
10. iPhone Android phone Web Desktop Anywhere iPad Android tablet Any Device Anyone (% world) Anytime Bots meta-platform runtime
11. “We more often than not over-estimate platform shifts in the short term but under-estimate them in the long term. – Steven Sinofsky
12. Where to start?
13. Start with empathy for a real problem
14. Your bot experience must be better and different than an app
15. Conversational
16. Meaning > Protocol
18. What your bot does is more important than the conversation
20. Autonomous Agents
21. The best bot experiences will be built with developers
22. How does your bot make humans better?
23. Context is key PAYMENT IDENTITY HISTORY AMBIENCE TIME LOCATION
24. Think multi-channel not omni-channel
25. Bots should be intelligent
26. “If intelligence was a cake, unsupervised learning would be the cake, supervised learning would be the icing on the cake, and reinforcement learning would be the cherry on the cake. We know how to make the icing and the cherry, but we don't know how to make the cake. – Yann Lecun Deep Learning Pioneer Director of AI research at Facebook
27. https://www.etsy.com/listing/54894371/killer-kinetic-lime-green-space-ship Your A.I. chatbot
28. We should stop trying to create intelligent bots top-down
29. Please, join me for a thought experiment
30. what will the temperature be like at 5 o’clock on Tuesday in Austin? it should be pleasant, 76F Tempy Kate
31. Tempy Kate what will the temperature be like at 5 o’clock on Tuesday in Austin? it should be pleasant, 76F
32. Um Tempy temperature 5/17/2016 17:00 CDT at Austin, TX? it should be pleasant, 76F
33. A holon is something that is simultaneously a whole and a part. Autonomous, self-reliant units that possess a degree of independence and handle contingencies without asking higher authorities for instructions. – Arthur Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine
34. Um Hey Um, let me know when I should dress for the weather, OK? You got it Kate! Kate
35. later
36. Um Yo Kate, don’t forget your umbrella today! Kate
37. Cal 8:02 AM Kate has a meeting in Austin today at 5PM Tempy 8:02 AM Temperature in Austin at 5PM today should be 76F Precipy 8:03 AM 85% chance of rain in Austin at 5PM ⛈ Um 8:04 AM I better let Kate know she’ll need her umbrella today ☔ Uber 8:06 AM Shale I request a car for Kate? Kevin 8:07 AM @Uber awkward… didn’t you get the memo? ⬅ Um 8:04 AM Yo @Kate, you’ll need your umbrella today! ☔ Kate 8:06 AM Thanks @Um, you’re the best! Kate Backchannel Kate Central
38. Tempy Precipy Cal Um Yo Kate, don’t forget your umbrella today! Kate
39. Kate
40. “What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle. –Marvin Minsky The Society of Mind
41. Agent (holon) Holarchy
42. “#$@&%*!
43. BEWARE of left-pad bot
44. “Think Different - Steve Jobs 44
45. A ridiculously simple bot hosting platform
46. Join us on the journey! It has only begun.
47. ““If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants” - Issac Newton
48. https://beepboophq.com @beepboophq @mbrevoort Beep Boop Mike Brevoort https://robotsandpencils.com @robotsNpencils Robots & Pencils