Chatbots.org Business News

For this series of blog posts, I interview professionals working in the exciting world of chatbots. This week I talked with Alex Galert, founder and CEO of BRAIN: a platform that enables businesses to create chatbots.

BRAIN is basically a chatbot management system: customers can create, implement and update chatbots for their business or client’s business via the BRAIN website or iOS & Android app. But there is more! It’s also a marketplace builder, webshop builder and it can be used to implement processes based on Blockchain.

Sponsored by virtual agent vendor eGain, we are proud to present the result of the survey of 3000 consumers we carried out. It reveals that lack of integration with human-assisted service is the biggest pain point in using virtual assistants according to our panel of 3000 consumers. Download the infographics in the png report or as pdf report.

Although #chatbots are popping up everywhere at the moment with all kinds of varying quality, I personally love this example. Smarty is a chatbot that appears as avatar. I like it either because of its simplicity, but especially because of its potential. It recognizes objects, it recognizes speech and gestures just on your iPhone.

These are exciting times. Once I decided to get back in business, life became a rollercoaster. A meetup group with more than 320 members, speaking on Frank Watching next week, now I’m invited to moderate a panel on the UTTR AI & Chatbot Conference in London on Oct 3th. How cool is all that?

Below you’ll find the press release. In the mean time, I keep on working on getting this website back on track and up to speed. Apologies for the hickups you may encounter but trust they will be fixed!

On Wednesday 31th, we’ll organize our very very very first Chatbot meetup. This time in AMSTERDAM. I’m very please to meet new people and see old faces. Remember the good old days AND look forward to a VERY exciting future!

An Artificial Intelligence startup has today announced ranges of flirty and sexy software-driven chat partners. The London-based company Erotic Chatbots Ltd aims to provide chat characters having the personality of an entertaining, interesting and amorous partner, who remembers past conversations with their user, and learns more and more about their user as time goes on.  The flirty and sexy conversations will come from the company’s “chatbots” – computer software available in male and female versions. The company’s launch products will all be straight, but later there will be lesbian and gay versions.

SecondEGO is a technology advanced self-service platform for creating and managing your own virtual agents. It offers a lot of options for home users, bloggers, small offices and corporate business.

Do many gamers remember Zelda II: Adventure of Link? It was an excellent fantasy game for the first Nintendo Entertainment System which occupied quite a lot of my evenings in 1989. The Non Player Characters were very basic though - typically a lone villager who hints which direction to head for the next dungeon. The villager kept on repeating the same hint long after I’d moved on. Nintendo’s NPCs are not much better in the latest Zelda instalment Skyward Sword in 2011, despite over 20 years of computer and game development in between.

 
Nintendo’s Zelda series from 1987 to 2011, a huge leap in graphics but not dialogue.

Are you creating a chatbot or virtual assistant?  Do you want to integrate an artificial intelligence character into a game, virtual world, website or mobile app? Have you ever wanted to create your own totally unique custom bot character, as smart as Siri, Jeannie, ALICE or Mitsuku, but with a completely different personality? Where do you start?

The ALICE A.I. Foundation has released a totally new AIML Superbot Development Kit, making it easier than ever to create custom chatbots and mobile virtual assistants. Based on the popular AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) standard, the Superbot provides a pathway to rapidly building your bot’s knowledge base. The character you create can be run on a variety of AIML platforms including Pandorabots.

We have started to work on Crowd Funding: an excellent opportunity for believers in Chatbots.org and for all people working on the website. Never heard of Crowd Funding before? Check out this nice example: