Conversational Cooking: Exploring Chatbots As a Cooking Interface (Podcast)

When I tell people I cook with Facebook, they give me a strange look.

But using Facebook’s chatbot as a cooking interface is surprisingly natural. The first cooking company to create a Facebook Messenger chatbot interface is ChefSteps, who launched their Joule-Messenger integration earlier this year.

The chatbot is part of the company’s larger vision around the idea of ‘conversational cooking’, which I discuss with the ChefSteps CTO Michael Natkin.

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