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
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2. Software Engineer
   @ Salesforce
   Einstein for Service
   Cloud
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3. Everything I’m going
   to tell you today …
   is relative
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4. San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
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5. San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
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   2018
   

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6. Unix Mainframe
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7. Text Based Everything
   

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8. BBS:
   bulletin board system
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9. st.per
   

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10. st.per
    

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11. 11
    saint.peter = gatekeeper
    

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12. 12
    saint.peter = gatekeeper
    

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13. What is a Bot?
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14. “A computer program that works automatically”
    - Cambridge Dictionary
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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
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16. Can machines think? - Alan Turing
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17. Can machines think? - Alan Turing
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18. Bots skills
    Autonomy
    Persistance
    Reactivity
    Social Ability
    

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19. What is NPL?
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20. Syntax
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21. Semantics
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22. To accomplish NPL goals
    there are two approaches
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23. Brute Force
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24. Symbolic Approach
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25. Modern NPL engines combine strategies
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26. Bots from the Past
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27. Eliza - 1966
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28. IRC Bots - 1990’s
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29. Clippy - MS Office 97
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30. Verbasizer - 1995
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31. Verbasizer - 1995
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    (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
    

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32. Verbasizer - 1995
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    “It's a technological dream, it will give
    me access to ideas I wouldn't have had
    otherwise”. - David Bowie
    

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33. Bots from the present
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34. Bots from the present
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35. Slack Bots
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36. Slack Bots - Giphy, Right Gif
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37. The World's First Robot Lawyer
    Do Not Pay Bot
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38. Tay
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40. Now, we know how bots
    got here
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41. How are they going to
    be in the future?
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42. Co-creative partners
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43. Collaborative Agents
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44. Inmortal Bots
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45. Bot’s Mission
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46. @mogox
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