On chatbots

No paper today, instead a short piece to tee-up the next mini-series of papers I'll be covering… The whole process is about augmenting the capabilities of the team to make them more effective, not about replacing people with AI systems. I've been using this model with one of the startups I work with, Atomist, who are using a bot as the primary interface to the system they are building. What does all this have to do with The Morning Paper? In order to separate the hype from the reality, the practical from the pipe-dream, it's very useful to have a good handle on the capabilities of the underlying technologies. The WildML blog recently posted a great high-level overview of Deep Learning for ChatBots (and I'm looking forward to the next instalments in the series).