Which follow-up hotspots and investment trends of chat robots that have turned bad are followed?

Robotics> Robot Network News: According to the China Investment Advisory Network in the field of data-driven venture capital investment, it is often confusing for everyone to follow suit: Why do some ideas cause a sensation? If they are really looking for innovative ideas, why are they fleeting?

Recently, William Hsu of Mucker Capital told this topic through “Litter Investment” (blindly follows the investment behavior). He said: “We will find that the hot investment in 2014 is a joke today.”

What did these lemming investors actually invest in? It can be said that there are numerous projects to invest in. Prevailing social networks can help you remember these investments. At that time, various applications were opened everywhere and the sharing economy followed. Uber's sharing economy has been a success. Now drones have grabbed the limelight in Bitcoin.

The emerging market opportunities brought by emerging technologies can often attract eyeballs quickly, leading to a heated debate among online, media, and social networking sites. But soon this hot debate turned into criticism. As William Hsu puts it: “Six months ago, venture capitalists were touting non-bank lending startups, but now they are retreating. What happened to the Internet of Things after the rise of Smart Home Nest?”

The core question is whether this follow-up behavior is caused by the investors themselves or because of the media’s promotion. It is difficult to separate the two, because most of us know that investors are basically observing the trend of the market, and then add some of their own analysis to determine the area of ​​investment.

A bad chat player

The chat robot is a typical example of showing a company to follow suit.

In the winter of 2015 and fall of 2016, conversational software became popular. They replaced the traditional way of checking weather or ordering airline tickets. Slack promised to invest $80 million in robotics, using its platform and Betaworks to launch the Botcamp Accelerator.

However, there has been no corresponding surge in market demand, and the field of chat bots has not brought about an immediate technological breakthrough. Soon, this chatbot lost its brilliance. Critical articles emerged one after another, and Ellen Hue also revealed the human-driven "robots." Since the initial popularity of chatbots, they have subsequently been questioned and finally slowly withdrawn from view.