Textual Interface The rise of the ChatBot

Steven CooperSenior Developer EvangelistXero

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Ive been to a few events

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Over 717,000+ Subscribers around the

world

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https://www.xero.com/blog/2016/05/trillion-reasons-use-xero/

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The BotsAre growing in number

Rise of the Bots

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They come in Peace

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Just because we disagree

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do we disengage

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HistoryWe have a long history of Bots

We have come a long way

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The Turk

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By Carafe at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7860391

IRC eggdrop bot

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AIML

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Early Chatter Bots

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By Bemidji State University, Attribution, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14494369

The Spambots

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Typing as a UITextual interface

Contextual User Experience

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Raise Invoices

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Payroll

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Reconciliation

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Dashboard Overview

Textual User Experience

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Orly bot

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HeySlack

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devstev.es/heyxero

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HUBOTCustomisable life embetterment robot

hubot.github.com

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Setup the config

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XeroAPI

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A Count Ant

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Don’t worry imnot ..… buggy

developer.xero.com

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Totes <3 that Developer TV*CLICK*Wow fastest internet ever

Xero Auth

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*HEY RAPPER*

Yo what up Ant

Hey im not your Aunt

You could say im… Import Ant

Hi there… i run an import business

Well its better than the Aunt joke at least

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Xero Auth

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You could say the next bit is ….

Import Ant

Now for the Xero user to sign in and auth Hey that’s me!

Now I just enter my password…..AntL0ver3And Computer Says YesWow, just wow

Configure Slack

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run hubot run

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HeyXero commands

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Everyone Stop

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Its Demo time

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ThanksComments? Questions?

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Xero Lvlup Melbourne

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Xero Dev TV

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devstev.es/xerocareers

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Drop Microphone

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Walk off stage