2. Top options for any Data
Scientist in 2016
1.
2. do something else
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3. Three trends to track
1. The rise of Chat Bots
2. Personal Assistants
3. API / Micro-services
Intelligent
Apps
More stuff
accessible
to 3rd party
software
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4. 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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5. 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
6. Are chatbots any good?
NOTwhen they are trying to
implement GUI browsing via chat dialog
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YESwhen 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
7. 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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8. Trend III: API / Micro-services
Service
Provider
WWW
3rd party
app
API
• API Management market CAGR 22% (Forrester)
• Google just bought Apigee for $625M
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12. Terminals
• Chat and assistant terminals
• Connector services
• Microsoft Bot Framework
• API.ai
• message.io
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13. NLP/NLU
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• IBM Watson Language Services
• Microsoft Cognitive Services LUIS
• Google Natural Language API
• WIT.ai
• API.ai
• angel.ai
14. Reasoning
• Alexa Skill Kit: set of sample
queries -> provided API
• Viv: Automatic synthesis of the
intent fulfilment pipeline
15. 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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