Bots from the past and future

Today you can grab your phone, start a conversation with a bot and get something done. Sometimes it’s pizza, sometimes it takes away your parking tickets. How did we get here? How are bots going to be in the future? And the most important question, how can we take advantage?
This talk will have computer science history, natural language processing, bots and science fiction characters.

Transcript

1. Enrique Mogollan @mogox Bots from the past and future 1
2. Software Engineer @ Salesforce Einstein for Service Cloud 2
3. Everything I’m going to tell you today … is relative 3
4. San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato 4
5. San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato 5 2018
6. Unix Mainframe 6
7. Text Based Everything
8. BBS: bulletin board system 8
9. st.per
10. st.per
11. 11 saint.peter = gatekeeper
12. 12 saint.peter = gatekeeper
13. What is a Bot? 13
14. “A computer program that works automatically” - Cambridge Dictionary 14
15. A Software Agent Responsible for acting on behalf of someone else to perform a task. Modern bots have more autonomy depending on how intelligent the software is.
16. Can machines think? - Alan Turing 16
17. Can machines think? - Alan Turing 17
18. Bots skills Autonomy Persistance Reactivity Social Ability
19. What is NPL? 19
20. Syntax 20
21. Semantics 21
22. To accomplish NPL goals there are two approaches 22
23. Brute Force 23
24. Symbolic Approach 24
25. Modern NPL engines combine strategies 25
26. Bots from the Past 26
27. Eliza - 1966 27
28. IRC Bots - 1990’s 28
29. Clippy - MS Office 97 29
30. Verbasizer - 1995 30
31. Verbasizer - 1995 31 (Hallo) Spaceboy, You're sleepy now Your silhouette is so stationary You're released but your custody calls And I want to be free Don't you want to be free Do you like girls or boys It's confusing these days But Moondust will cover you Cover you
32. Verbasizer - 1995 32 “It's a technological dream, it will give me access to ideas I wouldn't have had otherwise”. - David Bowie
33. Bots from the present 33
34. Bots from the present 34
35. Slack Bots 35
36. Slack Bots - Giphy, Right Gif 36
37. The World's First Robot Lawyer Do Not Pay Bot 37
38. Tay 38
40. Now, we know how bots got here 40
41. How are they going to be in the future? 41
42. Co-creative partners 42
43. Collaborative Agents 43
44. Inmortal Bots 44
45. Bot’s Mission 45
46. @mogox 46
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