Re:Ask HN: Is anyone actually excited about using chatbots?
by skewart on Monday April 25, 2016 @02:08AM
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True indeed.
> Chat could be the ultimate discoverable API - with bots talking to one another.
This is something I've thought about a lot recently. It would be amazing if natural language becomes a viable protocol for machine-to-machine communication and machine-to-human communication. The real potential for bots may be in forming a massive network of specialized agents which talk to each other and collaborate to fulfill any single request. People could easily be part of this network too - a bot sends a person a text message asking a question and waits for the answer.
Of course, just from the perspective of a lazy developer it would be great to be able to interact with APIs by writing requests in plain English instead of having to lookup endpoint docs.
> Chat could be the ultimate discoverable API - with bots talking to one another.
This is something I've thought about a lot recently. It would be amazing if natural language becomes a viable protocol for machine-to-machine communication and machine-to-human communication. The real potential for bots may be in forming a massive network of specialized agents which talk to each other and collaborate to fulfill any single request. People could easily be part of this network too - a bot sends a person a text message asking a question and waits for the answer.
Of course, just from the perspective of a lazy developer it would be great to be able to interact with APIs by writing requests in plain English instead of having to lookup endpoint docs.