How a Personal Chatbot Could Transform Your Life
Forget about going to Mars — we need individualized chatbots
The next trillion-dollar business will be the company that invents the chatbot that does the things I don’t want to do.
I’m not talking about those annoying popups in the lower-right part of your monitor or phone. I’m talking about a chatbot virtual assistant. It learns from me and my habits. Then, it does tedious online tasks. This lets me watch “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” while it works. It can also battle the dumb chatbots. They try to guess my every move before getting a real person online to answer my questions.
I needed to rent a car last holiday weekend. My transaction with Enterprise Rent-A-Car had several instances where I needed a chatbot to do my bidding.
Why, for the love of god, can’t you remember I’m not a midget?
When you go online anywhere to do anything, you fill out a form.
The problem is that even if you have been to the site before, it may not remember your previous answers. So, you will have to spend time filling out the form again. My chatbot would remember all the information. It could look up unusual answers from a database on my computer. It would remember all my…
