Bots

“As you think about in many, many ways, I mean, people have been combating bots that are, you know, coming in and just swarming social media networks just to kind of make sure they get enough click throughs and so on. So I think companies are ready for that, th…”

“I'm sure we're going to start seeing that people are talking to these bots far more than actual human colleagues and far more than their families and their significant others at some point.”

“The bots can pass the Turing test. And if the bots can pass the Turing test, then you can't screen for bot. You can't have proof of not a bot, but what you can have is you can have proof of human.”

“When you have a conversation with a bot or a computer in general, you are reducing or simplifying your notion of what a conversation is. You're leaving out what's going on between us right now, which is acknowledgement, Skepticism, body language all the subtle…”

“I think it's not about combating the bots because that will be a lost cause, but rather every human on these platforms will need some version of a proof of human and actually prove that their content is authentic.”

“We could spin up a million bots right now and put it in a simulation and it would be the most boring thing ever.”

“Bots will live this parallel life where they work for you, but they vent with each other, and they hang out with each other, and this creates massive, ah, like, randomness, and some of that is gonna be very entertaining for both bots and for humans to consume.”

“If you're famous in the real world, Your bot becomes famous. But, your bot can become famous, and then you become famous as well.”

“So if you're a game developer, how well you're actually retaining players, it's like if you have a game that's already at scale, it's like decently dependent on how good your bots are.”

“It would have to be the utility of the bot, the why of the bot would have to be so great that no human could reasonably do it... It can't just be sick of fancy. Like, it has to be like, no, this actually adds some value that no human could reasonably do.”

“I think that that's, it, it'll probably be the same fundamental infrastructure that regulates how bots access the web, that ends up regulating how browsers access the web, and a browser that Takes data and then immediately feeds it back to an LLM might have mo…”

“50% of traffic is already bots, it's already automated”

“A bot is not the kind of thing that can have judgment, nor is it the kind of thing that can have accountability for exercising judgment.”

“Essentially those bots back then and still today are between 30 to 50% of the internet population.”

“I'd actually argue Twitter is already doing this. Like Twitter, I think is intention. My, I'm not, I have no inside information. My sense is it is intentionally full of bots. Cause people are lonely. People want responses.”

“There's one example where before going to an investment committee, each member of that investment committee actually has to engage with a bot and, Ask its questions and go through the verification processes as part of their overall investment committee decisio…”

“If you replace humans with bots, which is what this is, you're going to crush those things. SBC at the limit goes to zero because you don't have to give stock to a bot, right?”

“And probably in some time, not very long, like six months, one year, there can be a bot that can say, Hey, this rule designed by the human is not good enough. So my job is to give the best outcome to the customer. So, so I'll build my own rules or ignore these…”

“My thinking is that even that will become a bot that will start to prompt based on the domain area that, that I am, that it's able to go and feed that information. So right now, obviously prompt engineering, because then you can get the answer the way that you…”

“And so, it stands to reason that 10 years from now, like, you know, yeah, bots really suck today. They're awful at their job. And so, you know, 10 years from now, we're gonna have a bunch of amazing bots, like, you know, commenting on all of our stuff, and.”

“Most founders would consider these social interactions grunt work and try to automate them away as quickly as possible with bots or interns”

“The bots And that content wipes out all the entertainment stuff. Like that's just going to be noise. And like, it's a, maybe it's an acquisition strategy, but it's not a business. All the business has to be on that. What's capital rich. And I think that will b…”

“So when you say most common, I think the most common is 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.”

“And I should also say like the way professional poker players train now, They all use bots to assist them. It's a lot like chess where you play the game and then you have a bot analyze your play at the afterwards and see like, okay, did you make mistakes? Wher…”

“If a bot can help answer, you know, the top hundred most commonly asked questions, then that will lead your members to ask more specific, more nuanced questions, go into more detail, and that will lead to better conversations as well.”

“And I think there's a lot more where actually bots are going to be much better at large scale community management than humans are.”

“If you compare a bot to a human being, I think a human being has way more biases than a bot.”

“A bot might actually be the most efficient way to get to that point where, yeah, a community is literally all about the members, because the leadership, the facilitation, the introductions, the sourcing the right content, the moderation, all that can be done b…”

“Bots don't have trauma and humans connect around trauma. They connect around those shared experiences.”

“Use all the exact words that a human does, but the very knowledge that it's a bot will undermine any sort of relationship that you can build with it.”

“If someone chose to build a community and have the bot not tell people that it's a bot, I think that a community would still form, and we would never know.”

“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.”

“In the bot world, in the automation world, where we constantly battle against web scrapers and fraudsters and try to stop account takeover attacks and credential stuffing. There it's sometimes there's a bit of a gray area where automation replicates so well th…”

“I think it's some number that is probably at least four or five times that number. I'd say at if you did sort of the lowest estimate would be probably 20%. And this is a bunch of quite smart outside firms have done analysis of Twitter and looked at the sort of…”

“One of those, for instance, is building a bot. You might want to put a bot into the store and there are probably seven or eight separate technologies you kind of need to get yourself or your team skilled up on in order to build a, you know, natural language, u…”

“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…”

“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.”

“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 …”

“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.”

“Bots are a very specific interface choice, ah, good in situations where you have repetitive work that doesn't, you can't really afford to do training on, so you need to have a very natural interface.”

“With Sumail, we went undefeated. I, and I think it was five zero that day.”

“There's going to be a couple of hundred famous bots in the world, and everyone's going to know them, and everyone's going to be able to interact with them, and they're not going to be, it's not going to matter what directories are listed in. They're just going…”

“The stuff that we're working on, the stuff that I'm investing in or helping to build, it's all like the, these are bots that do specific functions that people pay for.”

“I think it's a major point of disruption. I think that the single biggest change is going to be for the past few decades almost all of our interactions with technology have been one person interacting with some system. So it's been like you using Microsoft Wor…”

“I think a lot of the excitement about, ah, bots in general, not just on Slack, on Messenger, on all these other services, is developers are really fed up with trying to actually get adoption and distribution for the service that they're building.”

“My hypothesis is that at least at the beginning for sure, and I think going forward, they will live everywhere. One bot, I should think of a bot like I think of a contact person. It should be in my contact list. It should be in my Facebook messenger. Maybe it'…”

“I'll tell you the thing that I love the most is augmenting my memory. I don't have the world's greatest memory. I like to take lists. I try to keep lists together and things like that, but I find it really, really hard to keep track of all The ideas and people…”

“The bots thing is, you know, look, it's not new. It's the Asian bot ecosystem has been around for a while. There's a bunch of reasons why people are now excited about it, but these things come in cycles. Like, you know, I remember very distinctly the days of a…”