Students Should Create....Chatbots

When I brought home our Google Home Personal Assistant, I was pretty excited to see how our children used it.  I felt like we walked back in time as if we were a family who had just purchased a state of the art radio.

Perhaps you have visited a website lately and a chat window automatically popped up that said, "How can I help you?"  It's likely that the person behind that is not a person at all but a "chatbot."

Whether it be via messaging or voice recognition with Google Home, chatbots are changing the way we interact with the web, shop, listen to music, workout, acquire knowledge, etc.  Some even believe that chatbots will replace website because young people are so wired to text, snapchat, message, etc.

The beauty is that companies like Motion.ai have create web based tools that empower all of us to create web based chatbots with easy drag and drop menus.  There's a small learning curve but nothing students can't figure out in a hour or so.

Why should they build these?  Instead of Artificial Intelligence replacing their jobs, how about we empower students with the skills to build Artificial Intelligence?