Bot! zine - Issue #91

By Bot! zine • Issue #91 • View online

I got some great feedback from a reader last week ( 👋 Luke!) about newsletter content. He wanted to see more art bot coverage, so I’m hoping to get a little more back to our “roots” this week in the New Bots section.

Harder, however, to find good stories about art bots for the Required Reading section! But I’m on the case. Remember, if you see anything out there in the world that you think should be included, let me know! Send me a tweet, or reply to this email.

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Required Reading

Researchers find that Twitter bots can be used for good

According to Emilio Ferrara, a USC Information Sciences Institute researcher, not all Twitter bots are born bad. He should know. Ferrara created a “large-scale experiment designed to analyze the spread of information on social networks” and found that “good” tweets spread just as quickly as bad tweets.

techcrunch.com • Share

The Final Chapter of Beep Boop

We decided that if we were really going to make a dent at empowering diverse teams to work together more effectively, we needed to expand beyond developers and create a platform anyone could use. We needed to focus on how people worked with each other, not how systems connect to systems. We needed to embrace that every company, team, workgroup, and relationship is unique. We needed to focus on workflows.

blog.beepboophq.com • Share

EFF: Stupid patents are dragging down AI and machine learning

“The patent reads like the table of contents of an intro to AI textbook.”

arstechnica.com • Share

We found the best tool for building chat bots – Bot Diaries

So here’s our attempt at a better answer: We spent the past couple of months testing dozens of bot-building tools. (Our eyes are still twitching.) In the process, we found a tool we love and are using for all of our Bot Studio chatbot projects: Dexter.

bots.qz.com • Share

Building more intricate workflows in Slack with Dialogs

Let’s say you want to build a new feature that helps people complete a multi-step task using your app. Dialogs are now here to make that possible — all without relying on a bot or having to post multiple messages to a Slack channel.

medium.com • Share

New Bots, Tools, and Directories:

Peter Leonard on Twitter

Spent a weekend training a Generative Adversarial Network on 25k 19th century portraits; results seem good. These people have never existed.

twitter.com • Share

Fixme Bot (@FixmeBot)

I’m a bot that posts highly viewed, underdeveloped Wikipedia articles. Built by @ragesoss, with data from @halfak’s ORES project. Seattle, WA

twitter.com • Share

imaginary pigeons (@fancypigeonbot)

The latest Tweets from imaginary pigeons (@fancypigeonbot). A bot for generating fancy pigeon breeds by @gredaline

twitter.com • Share

Events

Botmakers Meetup - Botmakers (Brooklyn, NY)

This is the first Botmaker’s meetup in our new home- Babycastles!

www.meetup.com • Share

Hackathon: Bot or Not Sat, Nov 4, 2017

Eventbrite - Dashbot presents Hackathon: Bot or Not - Saturday, November 4, 2017 | Sunday, November 5, 2017 at Microsoft Reactor, San Francisco, CA. Find event and ticket information.

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