Your next app might be a bot! Building conversational UX with API.AI

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Live demo shows API.AI mapping free text to structured intents and entities, connecting to Google Cloud and messaging channels; team built end-to-end bot in ~15 minutes that handles commerce (quantity, product, address), service requests, and multi-step prompts for missing fields. Integrations include Cloud Functions (Node.js) and .NET webhooks, Facebook Messenger, Cloud Speech, Natural Language sentiment, Twilio auth; platform supports 40 languages; webhook logic is tiny — webhook was 4–5 lines — and answers include confidence scores and exportable JSON for production.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:43A conversational agent platform helps you understand and act on natural language conversations
3. 4:07APIAI - cross-platform support
4. 6:17APLAI demo: imaginary Google Store
5. 31:34We are Bosch
6. 37:40ING is a global and universal bank
7. 38:34Marie, Your Digital Assistant

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