Api.ai vs Wit.ai: A comparison

Yesterday's big news in the world of chatbots was Google acquiring Api.ai, a company which allows developers to integrate natural language processing and understanding into their applications. Think of it like talking to someone, but instead, that someone is now your phone, and it actually understands what you're saying. Services like Api.ai and Wit.ai are capable of processing human speech patterns and filtering useful data like intent and context from it. Now that Api.ai is owned by Google, the battle between Api.ai and Wit.ai will probably intensify, as Wit.ai has been Facebook's property since January 5th of last year. In this article, I will describe the outcome of an independent test I ran last week, without any knowledge of the acquirement of Api.ai by Google.