Are Personal Chatbots the Future?
Chatbots have been around for decades, but they’ve recently garnered more attention as they become better and used even more. When Facebook opened up their Messenger API in 2016, it led to hundreds of thousands of bots over the next two years. Early chatbots were (and many still are) quite generic and impersonal. Yet the…
The Evolution of Conversational Chatbot Systems
Conversational chatbots like ELIZA and PARRY in the 1960s and 1970s were early, crude examples that were basic in their implementation and effectiveness. Over the decades, the technology has increased considerably, resulting in examples like Alexa, Siri, and XiaoIce. We’ll take a closer look at the latter below, but let’s first go over the details…
Bright Future for Social Media Chatbots in Marketing
Social media marketing trends change all the time, but chatbots will become even more crucial for marketers in the years ahead. Since their start in the mid-19th century, the technology that drives them has undergone tremendous changes. Today, they’re deployed by companies for a variety of uses. By concentrating on personalization and other factors, chatbots…
Implementing Chatbots For Ecommerce Stores
Chatbots have transformed the way we interact with the online world. These specialized computer programs based on AI and Natural Language Processing have already been put to use in many industries: eCommerce being just one of them. There are a few things you need to take care off if you want to make this process…