Messengers, Bots and Personal Assistants

Konstantin Savenkov, CEO Intento

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Top options for any Data Scientist in 2016

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2. do something else

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Three trends to track

1. The rise of Chat Bots

2. Personal Assistants

3. API / Micro-services

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Trend I: The rise of chat bots• 2015: More people in messengers than in

social networks, more time spent in messengers on mobile than in web and social networks combined.

• Businesses: follow the audience, need tools

• Messengers: want to earn money without hurting the audience

• Chat bots: an attempt to turn a messenger into a smartphone / browser etc ?

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Trend I: The rise of chat bots

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(apps, not bots)

NDA

(apps, not bots)

Some scepticism:a lot of money invested low to none revenues low user adoption

Are chatbots any good?NOT when they are trying to implement GUI browsing via chat dialog

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YES when they can operate based on a limited input, just like we humans

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•GUI-over-Chat is no better than PPP-over-Voice

•e.g. replace existing services with chat interfaces: concierge, receptionist, waiter, psychoterapist, customer support, assistant etc

manual

Trend II: Personal Assistants• Another way to be as close to users as possible,

and to control his consumer behaviour

• The next best option after a hardware-locked app ecosystem, which may be obsolete soon enough

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Trend III: API / Micro-services

Service Provider

WWW

3rd partyappAPI

• API Management market CAGR 22% (Forrester)• Google just bought Apigee for $625M

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IoT

Interface apps Intelligent apps

App Evolution

Robots

(enable to do smth.) (enable to avoid doing smth.)

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Dumb app Intelligent app

Menu Waiter

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Intelligent App

Terminal

NLP/NLU

Reasoning

Service platform

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Data Science Chalenges:

• Understand natural language

• Infer context

• Take decisions

• Cooperate

Terminals• Chat and assistant terminals

• Connector services • Microsoft Bot Framework • API.ai • message.io

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NLP/NLU

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• IBM Watson Language Services

• Microsoft Cognitive Services LUIS

• Google Natural Language API

• WIT.ai

• API.ai

• angel.ai

Reasoning

• Alexa Skill Kit: set of sample queries -> provided API

• Viv: Automatic synthesis of the intent fulfilment pipeline

Service Platforms

• Manual: Google Now / Assistant

• Crowdsourced: Amazon Alexa Skill Kit, Apple Siri Kit, Viv + a lot in verticals (hotels, taxi etc)

• Automatic: Intento (coming soon)

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http://venturebeat.com/2016/08/11/introducing-the-bots-landscape-170-companies-4-billion-in-funding-thousands-of-bots/

Chat bots vs. Assistants

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Chatbot paradigm: dumb terminals clever services

Personal Assistant paradigm:

clever terminals dumb services

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Q&A

Konstantin SavenkovCEO Intento

<ks@inten.to>

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