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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.
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!
4Chan provides that for free however.
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
Microsoft did so well with that one, it would be tough to beat.
What I want to know is why anybody thinks this actually brings anything of value to the table.
Oooh, a chatbot. OK, so a bad attempt at an Eliza program? An utterly annoying customer service thing? A way to annoy the hell out of people?
There is not a single application I can think of where, short of a bit of technology onanism, there's a single benefit to having some damned chatbot.
It's like those stupid telephone trees where some useless menu of options has been designed to keep you from a human long enough to just hang up the phone.
Leave it to Microsoft to think we all want a new fucking version of Clippy to provide the tedium of not being of any fucking use.
Digital assistants my ass.
And, as usual, Microsoft's vision of the future is a useless bit of technology, heavily tied to Office, which nobody really wants, and which won't be worth the resources allocated to it.
Gimmicks and other crap. Whatever.
I have no desire to pretend I'm having a "conversation" with software.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
I want to see 4Chan, Reddit, Fark, etc. all have bots targeted at each other.. That will make for amazing morning train ride reading.
I'm pretty certain most Trump supporters would fail a Turing test. "Nah, no human would say things so stupid and irrational!"
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
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?
RFC1925 rule 11: "Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works."
Someone had to do it.