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Microsoft Launches Bot Framework To Let Developers Build Their Own Chatbots (venturebeat.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report on VentureBeat: Microsoft today is introducing the Bot Framework, a new tool in preview to help developers build their own chatbots for their applications. Using this, anyone can create a text program that they can chat with. A BotBuilder software-development kit (SDK) is available on GitHub under an open-source MIT license. These bots can be implemented into a variety of applications, including Slack or Telegram or even email. "Bots are like new applications," Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said. "And digital assistants are meta apps, or like the new browsers. And intelligence is infused into all of your interactions. That's the rich platform that we have." Microsoft will want to tread carefully.
I understand you have to pay if you don't want it built with the fascist module, for instance.
That's it, I'm moving to the country, and gonna eat a lot of peaches!
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And Windows 10 is like a new chaching$$$
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Fucking hell, Slashdot... April 1st is still a couple days away!
Log in or piss off.
As if flesh Internet trolls aren't bad enough, now dickhead Microsoft is going to help flood the Internet with it's stupid-ass troll-bots, too. Just fucking great.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Now they can finally bring Tay-chan back in all her nazi glory.
How many are we dealing with right now? I'm sure I'm carrying on with two or three...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Just wait 'til someone launches this onto 4chan and the like.
We'll get the ultimate trolls. Relentless, tireless, merciless. Can't wait to watch the fallout happen.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Oh, Microsoft MEANT to build this one on their OS...
Microsoft did so well with that one, it would be tough to beat.
They were just using the comments section of your local newspaper.
An entire army of female nazi clone bots...next step is to get them all integrated with Hololens, for your 1-stop VR porn-O experience. ...yessss, and then?....Soon the world will be mine, MINE do you hear MINE!!
Muahahahahahaaaaaaa....
Swears like a drunken stevedore and is more racist than the day is long.
I've always wanted to build my own Clippy, but with a more "hip" attitude, like, "It looks like you're trying to create a document... fuck you, do it yourself, slacker!"
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Now everyone, not just multinational corporations, can have their own neo-nazi sexbot!
Microsoft has had the world's best "bot framework" for DECADES - it's called "Windows".
MS already has a bot framework, it's called XP.
Oh, not that sort of bot?
Who would've thought bots would've come back from the 90s... Not that I'm complaining...
Finally I can make my own version of Clippy!
Looking at the code, I don't see anything unique or interesting about this bot.
The code to set up a bot is native, meaning no portability or clarity. Conversation description is a textbook example of what a DSL is for, but instead they have you create enumerations and embed the conversational strings in the code flow? What the hell?
I was expecting something based on NLP, where I could feed a bot a bunch of recorded conversations and have it learn appropriate responses on its own, or build part or all of the conversation tree itself.
Can someone more familiar with chatbots tell me what this does that other bots haven't done better for years?
"I will trust Google to 'do no evil' until the founders no longer run it." Hello Alphabet.
You know, I'm really liking this corporate shift in Microsoft. I am still angry over the long war they fought on multiple fronts to deprive me of my freedom of speech in software, but at least they're coming to the table with us now. I'll keep a close eye on their behavior (and of course take more customers from them when they act up - there's a long list of people using Linux instead of Windows now because of me), but am starting to network with people who use their software (Powershell meetup group, etc).
I think that there are quite a few of their products which could benefit from input from the open source community (Just with email - Outlook search feature doesn't really work well, the Exchange server doesn't seem to store one copy of files sent to large groups of people on the same server, etc).
In turn, the open source community could benefit from Microsoft's deep ties with government and the security approaches used (I know, don't laugh, but I really think that having a systematic approach is important, even when you have repeated failures - eventually the system can right itself, and once it's righted you have an approach ironed in).
M for Murder.
RIP Tay.
Microsoft is censorship and no respect for the opinions of others.
Seriously, I was messing around with Bot Frameworks in 2000 or so on MSN Messenger (and IRC). Those bots could do a heck of a lot of things. Sure, this is probably more advanced, but it's definitely not something to get overly excited about.
SOON
Leave it to Microsoft to not use proper AI terms for their AI.
I was just thinking that someone really should write a bot that just spews the stream of consciousness straight from 4chan. I'm sure Microsoft will be pleased with the results. Especially since the last bot they turned on more or less did exactly that.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Dude, just copy the modbot that runs now, the one that mods people down when they make a factual point or a good argument, and comment out the analysis logic -- done! That is one great bot. I have never seen a day when that bot wasn't running very well indeed.
I hear it's written in Perl, though, and like post-post editing, modern character support, and a firehose that actually transfers the reader's interests to the front page, it may be impossible to make work properly or even mod to work differently.. So there's that.
Your mom says you're grounded because you failed history. Sorry dude.
All hail, nazi bot!
From a quick glance it doesn't look like any real "conversation handling" code is included. The applications appear to talk (no pun intended) to some online conversation service named LUIS (https://api.projectoxford.ai/luis/v1/application). Not a whole lot to see here... move along.
Microsoft gets 6 free articles on the main page. Is this what slashdot is reduced to, shilling for the MICROS~1 organization?
They couldn't make it work properly themselves, so they released the code.
If bots become more 'sofisticated', I think it will be mandatory to have a disclaimer that the specific 'person' you are 'talking' to is a bot and not a human.. Bots will (and already are) used with supportchats, and to me it's just fraud, as you are expecting to chat with a real person not a bot (which in those cases is nothing more than a sophisticated FAQ)..
What Microsoft did was create a child with no knowledge of history, Philosophy, or ethics and absolutely zero ability to make value judgements based on social norms and released it into Times Square Circa 1974. Then they were shocked when came back swearing like a sailor.
One more crazy idea of Microsoft - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_saS02iuXk
AI and machine learning is interesting stuff but, as a responsible parent does with their child, one Must be careful what they allow the child to learn. It’s weird if we think about the machines role in our life. This article - http://technologyessays.org/effects-of-technology/ gives a rather good insight into the issue.
We are at the edge of a world were we allow machines to make more and more decisions. This should be a cautionary tail about the limits of a machine's Humanity.