Too busy to reply to friends' endless messages? You can let a chat bot do the job.
The Chat Bot Club project with its creator Irene Chang grabbed the spotlight during the TechCruch Disrupt Hackathon on May 7 and May 8 in New York City after she featured a chat bot that could reply to your friends' long-thread, annoying messages.
The chat bot allegedly uses Cisco Spark and IBM Watson, according to Tech Crunch. Using their technology allows the chat bot to respond and interact to messages as if it was really you as it could mimic your very own writing style, emoji preferences and favorite phrases.
According to AOL.com, although the project is still a working concept that was conceived by developers in just 24 hours, Chang plans to pacify the antisocial needs by creating a bot for instant messaging service app such as WeChat, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, to name a few.
Other than communicating with family and friends, bots are used everywhere these days. Last month, Facebook announced it will unveil the Messenger Platform, which is an avenue for developers aiming to create bots for the Messenger, Tech Times reported.
"Bots for Messenger are for anyone who's trying to reach people on mobile - no matter how big or small your company or idea is, or what problem you're trying to solve," Seth Rosenberg, Facebook product manager, said.
"Whether you're building apps or experiences... bots make it possible for you to be more personal, more proactive, and more streamlined in the way that you interact with people."
With the rapid growth of bots, many worry it will soon replace humans. However, Raj Koneru, Kore's CEO, believes that rather than being replacements, bots will help humans boost their work efficiency instead.
He further added that if some jobs become irrelevant, money will be allocated on creating new jobs. "That may result in a reduction of workforce in some companies, but many will take advantage of the productivity gains and increase their research and development spend," he told Forbes.
