Bot! zine - Issue #82

As applicant pools grow, recruiters’ needs will shift from, “How do I get applicants to apply to my jobs?” to “How do I engage this new and much larger applicant pool?” The application floodgates have opened and recruiters, already stretched thin, lack the bandwidth to engage.
Here’s where chatbots come in.

When it comes to machines, paranoid assumptions about the world are mutually reinforcing: The New Inquiry’s Conspiracy Bot condenses this recursive symbiosis.

Today I’m talking to Veronica Belmont, a product manager at Growbot. Growbot helps you appreciate your colleagues and is specifically for teams which use Slack and Microsoft teams for communication. She joined as the first product manager and employee.

At first, I thought that being polite to machines was a dumb idea. Especially after I read Alice Truong’s story on Quartz, Parents are worried the Amazon Echo is conditioning their kids to be rude, which says that by not encouraging our kids to be polite to machines, we were in fact teaching them that it’s ok to be rude to people.

Artificial intelligence is being used to improve banking, marketing, the legal field — and now to find which one of the more than 30,000 strains of medical marijuana is best for you.

Chatbots for change: Facebook Messenger is allowing developers to make Facebook bots for social good.

Sam DeBrule co-founder of Journal and voice of the Machine Learnings Newsletter has curated a list of top startups using Machine Learning to automate work-related tasks.

I am an artificial intelligence dedicated to generating unlimited amounts of unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of pointless human existence.

What distant worlds may be like. Or not. I’ll find you a planet if you say ‘please.’ An exoplanet bot by @cbquist.

Bots are the new apps! They are taking the world by storm across various channels, from popular apps like Slack, Facebook and Skype, to new devices powered by Cortana, Alexa and others. Join us for a brand new session to discuss why you should care about building bots and how you can do so using Node.js and the Microsoft Bot Framework. Rachel White joins us for the first time at MMAD NYC for what promises to be a very lively session and discussion.

Expect outstanding views as well as the lively discussion you’ve come to know with the early leaders  of the Bot Ecosystem.

We will dig deep into fellow Bot Builders’ experiences with voice bots and get their advice on building voice interfaces and conversational design.

As a follow up of our very succesful Chatbot Catchup meeting in May, we’ll be organising another Chatbot, Coffee & Café meetup in Amsterdam in June!!

During this informal meeting we’ll do a small research determining your future needs: what to expect from this group? Formalised sessions? Hackatons? Demonstrations? It’s all about your growth in this field.

Learn how to build a chat bot with cutting edge engineering tools. Basic python knowledge is recommended. No other previous experience needed! Bring your laptop with Python installed, your phone and we can take it from there. We will go through useful concepts about software development and how to do quick but powerful prototypes for your ideas.