Title: Building a Chat Bot with API.ai
Talk Abstract: A new way of communicating with your computer/devices is on the rise: VOICE errr… well with your words. How do we make a program understand our determinations with words? Enter API.ai, a platform for mapping intents. Attendees will git a quick rundown of API.ai and see it used in a live chatbot.
Talk Description: A new way of communicating with your computer/devices is on the rise: VOICE. How do we make a program understand our determinations with words? Enter API.ai, a platform for mapping intents. Attendees will git a quick rundown of API.ai and see it used in a live chatbot. A more complicated chatbot made with Ruby will be demonstrated to show the some of the more advanced usages of API.ai. Some examples will be shown in Nodejs as well. There are a lot of tools out in the market that attempting to resolve similar issues as API.ai. Let’s start learning about these new class of tools. Limitations and alternatives to API.ai will be discussed.
Notes: I’ve been making this chat bot for about 6 months now. First as a proof of concept, and then completely again as an MVP with a node backend. We ran in to many limitations with voice-intent technologies, and a lot of changing of features and functionalities at the same time. Seems like a relevant topic. ;-)