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Hi everyone! I'm one of the cofounders. This is an early beta of our Bot Engine. We would love to get the community's feedback. Thanks!

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Hey Ar7hur, Awesome Bot Engine - thanks. 2 questions, if I can: 1. How much of an inspiration did the Telegram bot API make on your dev team? 2. What's the NLP back-end for it and what are your plans for duckling? I forked it a while ago and was going to add some languages I know - would that be useful?

Thanks for an awesome product!

1. None, AFAIK their API is a way to send and receive messages, but does not provide automation. Am I wrong?

2. We use a combination of traditional NLP (CRF NER, maxent classifiers) and deep learning. The "old" stuff needs less data to be trained. We'll continue to support duckling, we always love PRs, please help us!

I'm interested in this, but is there any info about pricing available yet?

They used to have paid plans, but since being bought out by Facebook everything is free.

Free for now or free "forever"?

hey ar7hur - excited about the release.

i've seen/heard that wit.ai likes to use clojure (lisp for AI programming? of course!). was clojure used to power Bot Engine? if so, how did your team like the experience?

Wit.ai (including Bot Engine) is 100% Clojure. Our Grand Master is Rich Hickey.

impressive :). long live the master

The team loves it. We're shipping features quickly and it integrates nicely with all the FB infrastructure (via Java). And of course, once you taste REPL-driven development.. you cannot go back :-)

awesome!

I was walking through the tutorial - noticed a bad hyperlink at the bottom of the page (https://wit.ai/docs/quickstart) "recipes" (s/"https://wit.ai/recipes/"/"https://wit.ai/docs/recipes")

Thanks for reporting. Will be fixed soon

lovely

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