Microsoft’s Bot Framework will help everyone build their own chatbot

The future is going to be full of people talking to chatbots, says Microsoft. This is the grand vision the company unveiled at Build today, and to help populate the world with these bots, it's launching what it calls the Microsoft Bot Framework. This will let anyone create a program that they (and their customers) can chat with, replacing standard web and app interfaces.

To demonstrate this system, Microsoft assembled a chatbot on stage for Domino's, showing how a conversational interface could replace the standard online ordering forms, such as your pizza from drop down menus. The company also showed how developers could debug these bots; testing them, examining snippets of conversation that were confusing, and adding relevant...

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