Mar 6, 2018

Bot! zine - Issue #99

By Bot! zine • Issue #99 • View online

Hello everyone! This week, we have a couple of interesting stories about bots that were created to help people: Spot, which allows you to report workplace sexual harassment or discrimination; and Woebot, a tool to help people cope with mental illness.

What are some other interesting applications you’ve seen for bots? Let me know by replying to this email!

@veronica

Required Reading

Conversing with AI on Slack

People who interact with our AI scheduling assistants Amy + Andrew are often surprised to learn they’re not humans, and we didn’t want to lose that element of their character by bringing them into…

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Build an infinitely scalable* Slack app in 5 minutes

Ready to start delivering applications directly into the hub of the enterprise, using a new suite of technologies that enables you to focus solely on your application logic, without lengthy deploy times and little concern for scaling?

Let’s hit it!

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Woebot raises $8 million for its AI therapist

The company’s bot is designed to help people cope with mental illnesses like depression through the application of cognitive behavioral therapy exercises. The bot is currently available on Facebook Messenger and a recently launched iOS app.

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More Than 200 People Have Talked To This Bot About Sexual Harassment

A chat bot from researchers in Europe is helping people formalize their memory of harassment – but it’s not solving the anonymity problem.

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New Bots, Tools, and Directories:

M.io

Chat with anyone across Slack teams, Cisco Spark and Stride

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BotStar

BotStar - A visual, intuitive Chatbot building platform. (Messaging, Developer Tools, and Artificial Intelligence) Read the opinion of 6 influencers.

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Tiny Geometry

Geometric art inspired by @EMDeWachter and @tinyspires. Made with https://t.co/XpDujaprri and https://t.co/DoQviLkCDr. Bleep bloop!. London, England

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Dr. Alec Couros on Twitter

So apparently, submitting a photo here at https://t.co/v1CqHm3Ed6 will trigger a neural network to roast you based on data that is found among the insults on this active subreddit.

https://roastme.io/

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