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.

It’s an interesting fact that despite Elbot’s successes in numerous artificial intelligence competitions it was never the intention that people would mistake him as a human, after all he does claim to be a robot. Behind the sarcastic chatterbot lies a variety of social psychological theories that provokes the user to act predictably, creating not just a very different chat experience, but one where the human believes that they are in control.

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.

According to Visa America Economic Intelligence 2012 Report, in Latin America e-commerce sales are going to get over US$ 69 thousands millions this year and it is expected to pass US$ 100 thousands millions in 2014.

Social networks have created a borderline between how customers and companies communicated in the past and what it is currently happening: from the Facebook and Twitter launch, both actors are able to interact without intermediaries.