@rickats the hype is really crazy around it - but we started building conversational AI 3 years ago and still remember VCs that would tell us that voice is the only way to go and that they will only talk to us if we make a Google Glass app. Great to finally see everyone moving in the right direction!
@ekuyda i feel you dude, I just don't enjoy the hype around this space now - i have something that i started building a while ago as well for messaging and social platforms (www.modernapp.co) ours is for brands to chat and sell to their audiences.
@stasmatv Thank you Stas! Good job with Allset - my favorite way to get quick lunch when I'm on the go :)
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Luka has an absolutely amazing team, they are going to crush it when it comes to applications of AI on messaging platforms (And they are a bot platform). If I recall correctly I even heard @dens raving about it last time he was in town as something things are going to be like in the future. Congrats on the new funding @ekuyda and team!
@mikeseeh Mike, we're looking into this right now. Some users from Europe experience difficulties getting the text message code. Please try again - it should start working!
I guess I must be part of the late adopters for this kind of products, but I really don't see how these bots could become and, more importantly, stay a thing. Sure, the technology is great, and it is cool to make a reservation by chatting with a bot. But -- and this is a genuine question, I just might be missing something, and I'd love to hear your point of view -- how is it an improvement over pressing a button ?
@thomgroutars you are absolutely right - it's still early and many bots out there are still gimmicks. But we've been seeing a lot of change here since we started almost 3 years ago - and I think a lot of awesome functionality that is purely chat-first is yet to be developed. Imagine you could tell a bot "I want to go out tonight" and a bot would text your friends, book a table and get back to you with a perfect evening plan? This is something that is very natural to do in a conversation. And that's just one of the examples. We'll be adding a lot of that to Luka, today's is a very early sneak peek into what we're up to.
This is such an interesting pivot! From restaurant recommendations from an AI to a general purpose "platform of bots"...!
I've met Luka's CEO, @ekuyda, and she's super smart. This is a great expansion of the original effort and rather than just providing a platform for other people's bots, Luka now has an army of assistants that can evolve independently, unlocking parallel bot-evolution, and targeted question-response by users. Now you can invite the right bot in a given category to a conversation you're having, instead of relying one universal bot that wouldn't be domain-specific, and therefore potentially prone to confusion.
Congrats to the team — this is an existing launch, with new funding to help them build this out!
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