Tom Coates on conversational devices

The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Conversational interfaces for the Internet of Things. In this episode of the O’Reilly Bots Podcast , I speak with Tom Coates , co-founder of Thington , a service layer for the Internet of Things. Thington provides a conversational, messaging-like interface for controlling devices like lights and thermostats, but it’s also conversational at a deeper level: its very architecture treats the interactions between different devices like a conversation, allowing devices to make announcements to any other device that cares to listen. Coates explains how Thington operates in a way analogous to social media; in fact, he calls it “a Twitter for devices.” Just as people engage with each other in a commons, devices chat with each other in Thington’s messaging commons. He also discusses the value of human-readable output and the challenges involved in writing human-understandable scripts. Other links: Coates’ blog post “ The Shape of Things ,” an overview of how connected devices will communicate with humans Google Translate’s interlingua The O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence conference , June 27-29, 2017, in New York

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