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Fantastic chatbots and where to find them

Talkat Rubyfuza 2018 · 2018-02-01..02-03· [ai-assisted-development]
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name:Arrie
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Claims that developers can build a chatbot without knowing AI and demonstrates it with concrete tools: Google Dialogflow for intent/entity/context, Google Assistant as the interface, a Rails backend and the Roots programmable bank API. The team builds a financial-planning bot that signs users up, parses names and amounts, and performs live bank transfers (1200.22 → transfer 200 → 1000.22 Rand) showing the integration actually works in demo. Also highlights common UX pitfalls.

AI-written summary · about

  1. 0:00Introduction to chatbots
  2. 1:07Why chatbots matter
  3. 3:19Usability and chat interfaces
  4. 6:54Building chatbots without AI
  5. 7:36Core chatbot technologies
  6. 11:34Implementing chatbots
  7. 15:25Intent, entities and context
  8. 19:11Live demo with Google Home
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