Bots respect innovations

Microsoft has released a platform for creating sociable assistants

Microsoft on March 30 presented new development tools; The company made the main bet on the bots. The head of Microsoft, Satia Valel believes that the future is for them, and not for the applications that we use now. That is why the technological giant wants to attract as many bots to their platform as possible.

“Our area does not honor traditions. She respects only innovations, ”said Satya Valel from the stage on March 30 (Paphos is an integral part of such presentations). He believes that bots are a new trend that will change the model of the interaction of a person and a computer. As Valel says, in the future it will not be necessary to remember what kind of applications the functionality of the applications because bots will be replaced by them. The head of Microsoft compares the transition from applications to bots with the transition from desktop computers to smartphones.

The conference showed how to make a bot, which will order pizza in two minutes. “This is the easiest code that I saw,” said Nadella. Microsoft introduced a platform for creating bots Microsoft Bot Framework . The bot can be connected to messengers (Skype, Slack, Telegram) developed with its help, which means the lack of binding to the product of Microsoft itself. The bot can be controlled through the SMS-Nadalla even showed some cheap phone from the stage.

In order for the bots to be able to do something, Microsoft gives free access to the API to recognize speech, voice, analysis of text, images and so on. In total, developers will have access to 22 API. All of them are represented here .

The main task of Microsoft is to make as many developers as possible their bots on her platform. This can grow in a big business, and Microsoft will easily figure out what to take money then. Satya Valel does not hide that he sees his company in front of this bog movement. “[The current situation] reminds me of 1992, when I just came to the company on the eve of Windows NT launched, and I worked to attract developers. Now I feel something like this, ”he admitted to Bloomberg Business.

As The Verge wrote in January 2016, the industry attacked the bots, as in due time - on the AppStore. Of course, not only Microsoft is engaged in the creation of bots. There is a ChatFuel service that allows you to create bots for Telegram using another bot. Google tried to buy this company, but in the end Yandex invested in it along with other investors. There are also MSG.Ai and Assist startups engaged in bots. Slack is ready to spend $ 80 million on investment in creating bots for his messenger. Finally, on April 12, Facebook will allow creating bots for Facebook Messenger, which has 800 million users.

No one argues with the fact that bots can become a giant market. But so far, among users of the stir, there are much less relative to them than that of large corporations. As noted by The Verge, the silicone valley grew on the command line, but whether people are ready to use it, another question.

However, Satya Valel is sure that they are ready. When the Microsoft Bot on Twitter in just a day penetrated by sympathy for Hitler (he had to turn it off), the head of the company modestly noticed that he would have to work a little more.