  Open data refers to data that is freely available for reuse. Although there
has been rapid increase in availability of open data to public in the last
decade, this has not translated into better decision-support tools for them. We
propose intelligent conversation generators as a grand challenge that would
automatically create data-driven conversation interfaces (CIs), also known as
chatbots or dialog systems, from open data and deliver personalized analytical
insights to users based on their contextual needs. Such generators will not
only help bring Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based solutions for important
societal problems to the masses but also advance AI by providing an integrative
testbed for human-centric AI and filling gaps in the state-of-art towards this
aim.
