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The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: An optimistic look at the future of bots.

In this episode of theO’Reilly Bots Podcast, Pete Skomoroch and I speak withBen Brown, co-founder and CEO ofHowdy.ai, the bot toolmaker behind the Botkit framework. Brown also runs theTalkabot conference, which was held in Austin this past September.

Discussion points:

• The types of bots that people are building and experimenting with on Botkit
• How the evolution of bots compares to the evolution of mobile apps
• The strikingly collegial bots community: Brown cites the contributions that IBM and Microsoft have made to Botkit
• Praise for new types of bots, including notification bots (such asPoncho), what Brown calls “unfurling content” bots (such asPurple), and bots that open channels to discussions with humans
• Thington, an Internet of Things platform that functions like a chatroom for micro-bots connected to different home devices

Other links:

• TheHarvard Business Review bot, which sends out advice articles
• Bloomberg article on Slack’s partnership with IBM to build chatbots
• IBM’s “World of Watson” event, held in October

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