12 ‘hot’ technologies not living up to the hype

This is tech. We make the future. However, we often get a little ahead of ourselves. Oftentimes the promise isnrsquo;t fulfilled as soon or as well as we imagined or vapored forth. Here is my list of stuff that may be good, but perhaps isnrsquo;t all that itrsquo;s cracked up to be as of mid-2017.[ The art of programming moves rapidly.
InfoWorld helps you navigate whatrsquo;s running hot and what's going cold. | Keep up with hot topics in programming with InfoWorld's App Dev Report newsletter. ]1. Chatbots It is ironic that Irsquo;d call chatbotsnbsp;a bit overhyped given that I work for a search company (full disclosure: I work for Lucidworks, a search technology firm with products in this area).
I donrsquo;t mean to say that NLP and conversational search and such donrsquo;t have a very bright future, but chatbots will only be useful as an interface to a search enginemdash;as the thing that asks follow-up questions to refine your search to find exactly what yoursquo;re looking for.

All of the other uses, like the one that tries to sell you something or tries to work in customer service, are just fancy dressed up IVR systems.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here