How I turned my resume into a bot. (And how you can too)
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At least for now bots are pretty much just a gimmick and "just because we can" thing, but then again, most of the cool stuff we have today began from that. I definitely do not see much value added in receiving information this way, such as getting weather updates or headlines. Bots will have to get a lot smarter and autonomous/proactive to be actually helpful. I do not want to chat with machine, I want it to do stuff for me with minimal interaction. Let me know when I can pay for utilities through messenger :).
Platforms are sexy and everyone wants one, I get it. But the real value will come from getting other businesses/services on board. That's dirty work that does not scale well, so yeah, let's just build a platform instead and hope "they" come :)