Bots are only interesting when they aren’t expected to be consistently useful or make money.

John Ohno on 2016-04-25

Bots are only interesting when they aren’t expected to be consistently useful or make money. The constraint of productivity saps away the only interesting thing about interacting with bots: serendipity.

The current boom in interest in commercial bots is just another example of the Spectacle trying to look hip by consuming something that can’t be effectively productized.