Getting Started with Chatbots (ePub)

Learn and create your own chatbot with deep understanding of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

This book makes you familiar with the concept of the chatbot. It explains what chatbot is, how does a chatbot work, and what exactly is the need for a chatbot in today's era? It focuses on creating a bot using Amazon's Lex service and getting the bot deployed on Facebook messenger for live chatting. This book
will train you on how to create a chatbot using Google's Dialogflow and test the bot in Dialogflow console. It also demonstrates how to create a custom chatbot using Microsoft's bot framework and enable the webhooks in Dialogflow and return the response from the custom bot to Dialogflow intents as a fulfilment response.


KEY FEATURES
· Concept of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning
· How AI is involved in creating chatbots
· What are chatbots
· Chatbot development
· Live chatting
· Create chatbot with technologies such as Amazon Lex, Google Dialogflow, AWS Lambda, Microsoft Bot Framework, and Azure
· Deploy and talk to your bot


WHAT WILL YOU LEARN
· Learn the concept of chatbot
· Learn how chatbots and AI work hand in hand
· Learn the concept of machine learning in chatbots
· Get familiar with chatbot services such as Amazon's Lex and Google's Dialogflow
· Learn how to write an AWS Lambda function
· Learn what webhooks are
· Learn about Microsoft's Bot Framework
· Write your own custom chatbot
· Deploy the chatbot on Facebook Messenger, Google Assistant, and Slack
· Live chatting with your own chatbot


WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
1) The developers, architects, and software/technology enthusiasts who are keen to learn the cutting-edge technologies and want to get a hands-on experience on AI by creating their own custom chatbots.
2) Organizations, small companies, service-based/product-based setups which want to learn how to create a basic chatbot on their website and on social media to get more leads and reach to the end user for their business.
3) Students, if they are seeking something where they can create and integrate the real-time chatbots in their projects.