P2P or Master-Salve Chatbots Architectures ? -- ConvComp2016

Interesting points; I agree and we already exchanged few tweets about a futuristic vision of a bot-to-bot (sort of p2p) converse (I hypotized a return of something like web services (…failed architecture, I admit) for bots "cooperative" machine to machine services: What you call Meta Chatbot -- A chatbot'router' (and I'd call "master-slave", just joking) appears to me an architecture more faisible now; in a sense, maybe Amazon Alexa is exactly in this way, with Skills plug-in ecosystem: Concerning natural languages conversational software (aka chatbots), and specifically about vertical versus General AI: I agree about the fact many companies claim to supply some sort of mysterious "AI/machine learning" engines (proprietary cloud platforms often), but until now is not to clear (to me) if these software contains real machine learning (or are just baeysian clasifiers;-)? Maybe IBM Watson Dialog contains a machine learning features? To be verified (my duty). About domain-specific I think that if domain is really "vertical", so a retrieval-based (or call I call"rule based pattern matching engine) like great Bruce Wilcox's ChatScript dialog flow language, could be a starting point for a possibile integration with some machine learning (a simple metalanguage for dialog flow design by linguistics, domain experts a deeplearning subsystem for inferences?) … some notes here: