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Chatbot conversation trouble
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Slack and the Decline of Bots

After customers found Slack bots hard to use, the company added traditional UI elements to bolster the bots’ simple vocabulary and hard-to-remember “slash commands.”
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AI Dungeon

AI Dungeon is a pretty astonishing example of generative fiction—in the form of old-school text adventure game.
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Facebook Gives Workers a Chatbot to Appease That Prying Uncle

Facebook sent employees home for the holidays with robot talking points for their families.
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AI First—with UX

AI assistants have trouble understanding user context, Mike Loukides writes, and that’s a tasty UX problem.
Educated guess design pattern
voice

Uncovering Voice UI Design Patterns

Design consultancy Cooper is sharing their emerging best practices for voice interfaces.
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The Surprising Repercussions of Making AI Assistants Sound Human

Wired’s Elizabeth Stinson considers whether we really want human personality from our bots—or whether it’s just unhelpful misdirection.
Robot Halloween - Photo by T. Cowart
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The Humans Hiding Behind the Chatbots

Bloomberg peeks in on the tedious worklife of humans pretending to be robots pretending to be humans.
The person inside the bot
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Facebook’s Perfect, Impossible Chatbot

Facebook is prototyping its omniscient bot by powering it with people, the MIT Technology Review reports.
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It’s Not Their Pop Idol, but a Bot

A New York Times story about chatbots and the music industry uncovers a few promising signals about bots.
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Can Amazon's Alexa Be Your Friend?

Alexa is designed for emotional connection. That can backfire.
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Chatterbot Chit-Chat: Siri vs Eliza

Jordan Mechner had the inspired idea of introducing Apple superbot Siri to classic chatterbot Eliza.
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