bots

also referred to as: bot

7 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Connie Chan · across every show →

Everything said about bots, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Chan: Web views inside messaging apps onboard businesses faster than full bots
“If you focus much more on web views and use the bot as more just a shortcut to go into the full-on web view, you can onboard accounts much, much faster.”
Connie Chan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:17 a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Opinion
Messina: Chatbots are currently dumb and shouldn't replace all web interfaces
“I actually agree with you that chat isn't the right thing for all things. One of the critiques that I got, of course, from the piece that I wrote about conversational commerce was, well, it was your critique, which is, well, you know, it doesn't make sense to …”
Chris Messina Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:34 a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Kevin Kelly: Any job defined by efficiency will ultimately be automated
“Any job that can be specified or can be specified in terms of efficiency or productivity is a job that humans should not be doing, and it will be a job that would go to the bots.”
Kevin Kelly Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 31:50 a16z Podcast | Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Insight
Chan: Chatbot adoption failed due to missing use cases, not discovery
“My concern is that the issue around bot usage and adoption is not actually the discovery piece. It's that the great use cases for the bots haven't been created yet. And that's more a function of Facebook educating developers or developers coming up with the ri…”
Connie Chan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:22 a16z Podcast | QR. AR. VR.
Jan 9, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Pande: Bot-to-bot interactions will drive adoption of standardized customer service APIs
“And especially when there's bots on both sides, now we can finally say, well, let's do an API on both sides, or let's do something smart.”
Vijay Pande Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 54:29 Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
Jun 10, 2023 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: All future email communication will occur between AI bots
“A lot of emails that get sent from here and out are going to be written by a bot, and so you might as well have a bot that can read them, right, and then in the future, like, all email will be, like, between bots.”
Marc Andreessen Jun 10, 2023 ▶ 27:24 AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
Jun 16, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Mytton: 50% of Current Internet Traffic Comes From Automated Bots
“50% of traffic is already bots, it's already automated”
David Mytton Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 16:52 AI is Revolutionizing Web Security - Bots, Agents, & Real-Time Defense
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