Chatbots have struggled to live up to the hype

Re:Chatbots have struggled to live up to the hype by jklinger410 on Sunday April 02, 2017 @03:23PM (#14018529)

I definitely agree with you on this. I think somewhere in the middle-ground is perfect, obviously.

I think I should be able to ask your chatbot how their day is going, but I don't think I should be able to shitpost with it for 3 hours.

The reason I bring up Chatbot is because they seemed to at least have the conversational part figured out.

Also, Siri is really not such a part of this conversation because it is honestly the only chatbot that I can think of that accomplishes a portion of what we're talking about here.

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Re:Chatbots have struggled to live up to the hype by behnamoh on Sunday April 02, 2017 @04:56PM (#14019004)

Siri can't even tell jokes, while Cortana is capable of telling jokes, singing, and much more.

These little things - even though programmed by some other person - can spice things up and make the bot look even more natural.

Go home Siri.

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Re:Chatbots have struggled to live up to the hype by PhasmaFelis on Sunday April 02, 2017 @06:18PM (#14019376)

Cortana's novelty functions are cute and make good advertising, but they're not really relevant to the quality of the service. In practice, you'll use them a couple of times, chuckle, and then never think about them again.

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Re:Chatbots have struggled to live up to the hype by eginhard on Sunday April 02, 2017 @05:46PM (#14019213)

The other day, (French) Siri replied to "What are you doing this evening?" with "I'm playing hide-and-seek with Markov models".

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Re:Chatbots have struggled to live up to the hype by Kurtz79 on Monday April 03, 2017 @07:24AM (#14021981)

When I set a short timer the answer sometimes is something like:

"Make sure you don't overcook that egg" or

"The suspense is killing me".

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Re:Chatbots have struggled to live up to the hype by jsemrau on Sunday April 02, 2017 @09:17PM (#14020004)

This would have been a perfect example for the event domain I proposed to Apple. But they don't want it.

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