What’s the difference between a Bot and an Agent?

“Bots” are things you hear talked about a lot nowadays, but you almost never hear the term “agent” anymore.

Once the glamerous star of the AI circuit, Agents recently have been relegated to searching for info, keeping…

Fallbacks are not Conversational

Story telling has risen to be one of the holey grails of digital.

Folks have figured out that providing a tool for people to express themselves is a goldmine — ‘cause all they have to do is just step back — and let users “do their thang” — and…

Story telling Bots

Instigate is developing Story Telling Bots to enable a new kind of creative expression.

Instigate Bot Stories can be video based, conversational, utilize photos or audio — or all of the above.

Story Telling is changing

You still need to start off with a script.

All your Bots R’ Us

Bannon’s puppet antics won’t prevent me from getting actual work done. Though he (Bannon) will go down in city as one of the greatest Machiavellian, Rasputin-like, Dr. Frankensteins in history — I owe a debt of thanks to Steve.

Bot-like sincerity — is a thing

Ever encountered a ChatBot which attempted to “act sincere?”

Try as it might, its really kind of pathetic to see these kind of failed attempts at connecting humans to Bots.

AI is Magic

AI has been around a while. When I first heard the term (oh those 30+ years ago) it sounded like “smart software” to me. That’s what it always has been.

Software doing the right thing. Anticipating what the human wants, anticipating and suggesting the right path, the right…

Train your Bot to tell your Story

The contrarian relationship between Human and Bot must have a purpose.