lol Ive wanted this forever too. What shows are coming back and what days. Bot/app/whatever. Great idea. Might actually have to do that 
Would love to play some games on messenger (apart from chess or basketball), specially if they are MMOs.
Waiting for the killer bot game.
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I came from a gamedev background myself and thats still where I am at heart but I’ve been thinking of using bots to augment other gameplay experiences rather than as its own game.
There are “textual novels” already in bot form but ive found them to be pretty boring / badly written choose-your-own-adventure type things.
I also have a soft spot for ARG’s and that’s where bots could see a lot of use but funding for those kinds of projects dried up years ago, feel free to reach out if anyone’s reading this and wants to do something though 
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I’d like to see a bot that shortens your essay by removing unnecessary words or paraphrasing what you wrote with less words.
Cover letter/Essay/Thesis shortening can honestly be such a pain. 
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“Waiting for the killer bot game.”
We are hoping the game release becomes that We for sure have an mmo on the road map as well any particular mmo you’d like to play?
I can’t speak for them, but I bet Storify would LOVE such a bot. Gathering witness statements via social media is already something that they do.
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I’d love a personal relationship manager that keeps track of friends & family across multiple channels - FB messenger, SMS, email, Twitter and even in the news - to bring you prompts of when/why to get back in touch.
Running a startup can be a killer on your free time so every bit of assistance helps!
To answer @Ben’s second question - I’m not building this right now bc I’m still busy on my first bot 
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I am thinking about something for education I.e helping kids work at their own pace and suggesting what they can do next. We’re project based home edders but it could probably be more widely applicable than that.
What I need: a bot which reads all the newsletters I’ve subscribed to, and alerts me when it spots an article I haven’t read that’s relevant to a conversation I’m having by email or social media. Semantic analysis, basically.
Why I’m not building it: building something else, and need a developer!
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@lbertenasco Haven’t built an MMO yet but I did build a one-person “RPG” of sorts based on the old CYOA books
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Was playing your game @s.ursu great work! We need to see more bots like this Keep up the fantastic job!
Wow! Thanks a lot 
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Do you really want a chatbot or just a website you can see upcoming shows and ask for an email at that time? The second exists. Building a chatbot on top of that is a push notification effectively, unless it branches into recommendations and discussions.
I’m curious on people wanting chatbots for things like this. Not that it’s a bad decision, just want to know the reason for wanting to converse with a bot rather than a web UI?
Of course… that’s like the foundational question of the whole conversational paradigm - why do people like it and in what areas.
This is where I think bots are going to become effective yet invisible to our workflows. I want a bot / AI assistant to keep an eye on what I am reading and tweeting about - or writing a blog post on - and go find information in the background.
I like the writing tool Wriber because of this. It watches keywords in whatever you are writing and suggests topics, related questions, and other stuff. It’s being generated with a Markov chain and web searches I think. Most of the suggestions are half nonsensical b/c of the Markov aspect. BUT they are enough to suggest interesting tangents or related topics.
That’s how I want AI assistants to evolve - augment what I am doing by suggesting context, related things, etc. Like if I’m writing a blog post about chatbots, remind me I was having a conversation about chatbots with my friend James on email a few weeks ago.
I don’t really want to talk to bots. I want them to do things and only ask me for decisions. Or provide me information to make decisions. Which suggests a lot more autonomous activity over time, and not just in the context of a series of messages navigating a short-term workflow.
Regarding grammar-checking and suggesting changes to tone and brevity, this is available. I first used software called Grammatik in the mid 90s that eventually was built into WordPerfect. It read a document and visually took you through it showing suggested changes to remove words, change passive verbs to active, or restructure sentences. It was very impressive.
It’s really odd not to be built into Word and all other editing software, given how long ago this problem was solved.
There is a startup called Wriber with a cool editor that does stylistic suggestions. It knows the optimal anlytics, reading level, paragraph length, etc for different types of writing and helps you meet that. Plus does topic suggestions and such. They aren’t open to logins at the moment - they are reformulating their business models. I have access b/c I keep in touch with the founder. But it’s pretty close to what I hope the future of writing is - a clean editor environment but where a bot is analyzing, providing content, fixing mistakes and, heck, even catching logic errors.
I should see if the Wriber founder is thinking about this at all. I keep pushing him to just open up the writing component as a paid service and be the first AI writing startup.
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Yep, I already did!
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That sounds fantastic! And yeah hopefully word editors evolve beyond mere spelling and grammar checking soon. I gotta say though, Grammarly is pretty damn good.
If there were a tool that could optimise chunks of text according to its purpose (eg thesis or blog post) that would be so neat. Wriber sounds like it could potentially fulfil this… Will be keeping a lookout for its release :^)
Learning assistant, for all students (or other learners) but especially those with learning difficulties. For younger users, it could be gamified.
I started to think about this when a friend of mine suggested I use my second Raspberry Pi to create a chatbot that would help his 10 year old son better learn English (a second language for him). I realized that such a bot could be extended to help anyone learn better, and have been toying with the idea ever since.
I’ll probably make one for myself on my spare time, but a proper personalized learning assistant for students and self-learners of all ages would need time and effort I don’t have.
Every store I go to says “download our app and get free [add deal here]” I am getting pretty tired of that… I think chat bots would be perfect for businesses marketing. Instead of me having a ton of useless apps on my phone I could just have a bunch of chat bots that ping me every once and a while about a deal or something. Getting so sick and tired of signing up for all these separate apps that I will rarely use.