Dennis Yang on bot analytics - a podcast by OReilly Media

The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Measuring interactions between bots and humans.

In episode three of theO’Reilly Bots podcast, Pete Skomoroch and I speak withDennis Yang, co-founder and chief product officer ofDashbot, an analytics platform for bots. Bots are a new way for humans to interact with computers, and require new ways of thinking about measurement.

We discuss crucial differences between bots and conventional interfaces, how human writers are essential for setting the right tone in a bot, and why users ask bots to tell them jokes.

Links

• GameMonk, games for Slack that Yang has worked on
• Streak, a trivia game in Facebook Messenger
• Redfoo’s Messenger bot

Bot of the Week

Pete and I walk through theAmazon Echo’s most compelling features and test out a few third-party plugins:Secret Keeper,Uber,Iris,SMS with Molly,Password Generator, and, of course,4AFart.

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