It was a hype a while ago and I curious as to if this is something that people are putting their effort into.<p>The far off future looks like people would not necessarily want to learn interfaces to consume several services, but verbal communication might replace the visual interfaces that are out there.<p>Using visual interfaces is probably much faster to use than chatting with a bot to get things done, but from what I have seen most people don't use the command line but like using visual interfaces although the former lets you accomplish things faster than a visual interface.
In a different thread some time ago [1], I wrote:<p>"The bot hype right now isn't about average UIs being replaced with text prompts of "What would you like to do today?", it's about large walled-garden ecosystems (Google, FB, Amazon, Apple, MS, Kik, etc.) funneling web searches and services through their own systems."<p>I believe the hype isn't driven by the desire of people interested in Natural Language Processing, but rather by providers of chat apps who want to track your 'click-throughs' and engagement; and by service providers like Uber and Papa John's who want to expand their services' reach into the hands of users who may be running FB Messenger or Whatsapp or Kik, but perhaps not running the Uber or Papa John's app.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12002773" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12002773</a>