Building your own chatbots with API.ai and Cloud Functions
A few weeks ago, my buddy Wassim and I had the chance to present again on the topic of chatbots, with API.AI and Cloud Functions, at the DevFest Toulouse conference.
Here’s the latest update to our slide deck:
There’s also a video (in French) of the same content from Devoxx France, where I was showing how to build a conference chatbot:
Chatbots, per se, are not really new, in the sense that we’ve been developing bots for things like IRC for a long time, but back in the day, it was simply some regular expression labor of love, rather than the natural language that we use today. The progress in machine learning, in both speech recognition (for when you use devices like Google Home) and natural language understanding (NLU), is what led us to being able to speak and chat naturally to those chatbots we encounter now.
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