Introducing Ozlo – Personal AI chatbot

What's the timeline for an android release? The examples all focus on food. Probably a good call for a focus (everyone eats), but is that the primary focus? ie is it a current limitation? Also agree with rohanpai, an api would interesting.

Are you guys using a service for managing the waitlist or did you build it inhouse?

If Google works for you, stick with it! Ozlo is for those questions where using Google would make you do all the work - like finding the best place for a burger in SOMA or automatically remembering restaurants you wanted to try.

You can see some added examples in our blog post: https://medium.com/teamozlo/introducing-ozlo-d5cce73d7ba5

From what I can tell, this seems to reduce the cognitive load of a search session way more than using Google (for certain use cases).

The advantages are: fewer clicks/taps, session state is saved on the page and suggestions reduce typing. They seem like minor things but make a huge difference in practice when you are trying to decide between a few options.

That being said, curious to see if the team can get handle the limitations of machine learning and maintain the quality of search as it scales.

Why isn't it just a menu?

Hi - we developed our suggestions UI quite some time ago. I think variations are becoming more popular because it's a way of solving the "invisible UI" problem for conversational systems.

Note that with Ozlo, however, our suggestions are just shortcuts. You can also text Ozlo anything you like by tapping on his avatar in the bottom left corner.

Many people who build these are actually just doing menu systems.

Annoying.

I think Luka has done a great job of exploring a lot of different approaches to this space. We've bet pretty heavily on the idea that most people will want one bot, not a family of them. But it's exciting to see so many people working to make this happen!