BRILLIG UNDERSTANDING

We've built chatbots that allow you to tell your phone to do things (set up meetings, play music of your choice, report on battery status, etc). Siri and Cortana and Alexa are just the tip of the iceberg. And they can't converse. ChatScript can. So our work is exploring the practical use of the conversational UI. Some of it we are doing ourselves. And some of it is from other developers using ChatScript. It is open source and hundreds of people and institutions around the world have copies of it. Several start-ups use it as core technology. There is even a mega-entertainment company that uses it... For command and control applications (like telling your phone or a robot what to do), we work on balancing how much confirmation to give from the chatbot and when. And we find that even for tasks which seem robotic where you give a system and order and expect it to carry it out, people enjoy the "entertainment" aspect of the system having a personality. Would you rather just give orders to..

Also known as: Brillig Understanding, Inc.

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