Chatbots Past, Present and Future

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" summary

Traces chatbot claims to a few concrete pivots: Turing test era to data‑driven QA, Siri (2011) and Watson Jeopardy as milestones, and real demos like a Best Buy FAQ agent that pulls pages and a real‑estate bot that schedules a technician within the hour. Tools named include chatterbot, api.ai (Dialogflow) and wit.ai, hosting on AWS/Google Cloud, and evaluation via precision recall F‑score plus user retention. Notes tradeoffs: flowchart-based bots fail when user deviates and the push from generic platforms to vertical custom bots trained on proprietary data.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:08What is a chatbot
3. 2:11Chatbot evolution
4. 4:41Mainstream adoption
5. 6:48Chatbots for automation
6. 9:20Business chatbot use cases
7. 11:48Chatbot architecture internals
8. 16:40Build your own chatbot
9. 22:45Chatbot platforms limits
10. 24:33Chatbot future trends
11. 28:46Q&A

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