StubHub creates first ticketing chatbot for Skype
The bot, developed at Skype's Bot Hackathon in June by two StubHub engineers, uses text dialogue to recommend users concerts and events
News By IQ | 4 August 2016
Video chat service Skype has rolled out a suite of new third-party chatbots, among them a StubHub bot that ‘talks’ to users and recommends events in their local area.
The chatbot was developed at the Bot Hackathon at Skype’s offices in Palo Alto, California, in late June by StubHub engineers Pablo Flores and Carlos Lopez and joins other bots by flight comparison sites Skyscanner and Hipmunk, task automator IFTTT and, er, Spock from Star Trek.
The event, co-sponsored by…
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