This is intended to be a high level review of Amir Shevat’s new book “Designing Bots”. * Comprehensive First of all, this is a truly comprehensive book. Check out the table of contents: It would be hard to find another book about chatbots covering so many topics. Hype free Amir does not make false promises about the viability of chatbots today. In the book, Amir talks about the stages of chatbot evolution – the emphasis is mine. What are bots? Why do we need them? At this stage most users and software providers are not aware of bots or how to use them (we are still in this stage, at the time I’m writing this book). We need a bot […]