# The chatbot race has begun.

**Published by:** [Durwin](https://paragraph.com/@durwin/)
**Published on:** 2023-03-06
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@durwin/the-chatbot-race-has-begun

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Who knows, maybe you could be talking to a Batman chatbot to do your bidding.Arms race, Space race, EV race and now, Chatbot race. We had a few major “races” in technology over the century. There was the Space race that pushed countries to see who could achieve superior spaceflight capabilities and send a man to the moon first. There was the arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to see who could have a larger nuclear stockpile. There was the Le Mans where Ferrari and Ford went to war with each other. Then the EV wars begin when Elon Musk took Tesla mainstream and showed the world just how much better it can be with electric vehicles. Now, with the arrival of generative AI, it seems the race to a better AI has begun. And chatbots have been given renewed interest. We all recall how crappy chatbots were, static, one-dimensional, uninteresting, lethargic and difficult to use. ChatGPT changed all of that.Can we truly censor AI-powered chatbots?Ok, it is still a little slow and wonky at times, but its a deliberate attempt to make you pay for the premium version. Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Baidu, and JD.com. Everyone is racing towards the best AI-powered chatbot. Why is there a race to create chatbots now? Why are chatbots interesting? Well, they have proven to be useful in penetrating the market and the new generation loves texting. More so that face to face interaction. Especially when it comes to simple tasks and requests. It is 2023, no one wants to start a conversation just to ask where to buy the best activewear or where the nearest Irish pub is. They would much rather text a chatbot to ask simple questions. Fast and simple.Chatbots have really come a long, long way since the beginning.Covid pretty much hammered that nail in deeper. So what is so different from the chatbots in the past? Well, the chatbots today are AI-powered, built with billions of data points, a lot faster and way more natural in their conversations. It doesn’t matter what industry you are in. Go where your customers are. And if your customers are humans (most likely), they will almost definitely prefer a more conversational, natural, simple, faster and efficient mode of communication. AI-powered chatbots basically adds an elegant, versatile and powerful layer of front-end interface to allow the customers to engage with the product/service deeper. It not only provides customers with the help they need but also helps them find what they are looking for quickly and intuitively. In a nutshell, they can provide businesses with a powerful tool to facilitate customer engagement, reduce manual effort and increase efficiency. Every self-respecting futuristic Hollywood movie has hinted towards that future, one way or another.Maybe one day we can really create a version of ourselves and interact with it. Scary or cool?Add in voice-operated or gesture-driven functionalities and you can see the applications and use cases explode. You can talk to your car like a real person, give it instructions, negotiate with it and even write a blogpost while it navigates traffic! I foresee a future where there will be unified, aggregated, universal chatbot layer that goes across all major brands, apps and websites. That way, when a customer interacts with 1 super-chatbot, it taps into the database across multiple universes from groceries, travel, banks, games, medical, search and so on. Yea, that omnipotent chatbot will truly be transcendent. Sweet or psycho? - Will AI-powered chatbots change the world? - #startups #business #startupx #growth #success #socialmedia #culture #entrepreneurship #strategy #eth #btc #crypto #chatbot #apps #ai #artificialintelligence #openai #google

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