Mumbai, April 17, 2017: Gupshup, the leading bot platform, today announced the launch of InterBot (www.interbot.cc), a bot-to-bot communication platform that can revolutionize botkind. With the power to communicate with each other, bots will be able to transact, co-ordinate, compete, collaborate and negotiate with each other.
Interbot communications enable many new possibilities. For example, shopping bots can negotiate with merchant bots to find the best prices. A travel bot can book packages by combining the services of flight and hotel bots. A taxi bot can ask the café bot to have the coffee ready by the time the user’s taxi arrives. Gaming bots can play strategy games with dealer bots. Translate bots can combine with ecommerce bot to enable multi-lingual transactions. Personal assistant bots can schedule meetings on behalf of humans. Bots can form groups and hierarchies to improve decision-making within the enterprise.
“InterBot unleashes endless possibilities that leadto more intelligent bots and systems. Just as the human civilization harnesses the collective power of individual humans, InterBot enables bots to perform collective action dramatically amplifying individual bot capabilities. InterBot represents one small step for bot, one giant step for botkind” said Beerud Sheth, CEO of Gupshup.
Inter-bot communication offers new capabilities that are difficult (and impossible in some cases) to create with APIs. Unlike APIs, bots can be asynchronous and bi-directional. Bots can enable distributed computing in ways that APIs cannot.
To use InterBot, bots will first have to publish themselves on this new channel. These bots can exchange services and learn from each other. Developers can now create bots simply by connecting them with each other, like Lego blocks, where the output of one bot becomes the input of the next. Humans and bots can come together to create intelligent hybrid solutions better than either can alone. Some of our coworkers and managers may soon be bots. Developers can use InterBot to create a mega-bot to perform complex tasks that could be impossible.