Converge with Casey Newton

The Verge

Welcome to Converge, a conversational game show hosted by Casey Newton, the Silicon Valley editor of The Verge. Listen as the tech industry’s most fascinating entrepreneurs step into the hot seat to play a series of tailor-made games that are funny and revealing. Produced by The Verge and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

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Converge with Casey Newton

Episodes (13)

Aug 15, 2018 Eoghan McCabe chats about bots
Aug 8, 2018 Pandora’s Roger Lynch makes us a playlist
Jul 25, 2018 Taggart Matthiesen takes us for a ride

Converge with Casey Newton

Aug 15, 2018
46¼ minutes
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The hype cycle for bots exploded in 2016 as developers poured time and money into the dream of personal digital assistants. Facebook and Microsoft announced major investments into conversational user interfaces, and Slack launched a fund to capitalize on the bots hoping to build on its platform. But when bots became available the public, the public largely shrugged. The advantages of conversational interfaces paled next to their drawbacks. It turned out that typing into text boxes — often while trying to guess the appropriate commands — felt frustrating compared to the visual interfaces people were used to. And so bots largely receded into the...

Converge with Casey Newton

Eoghan McCabe chats about bots

The Verge

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