BPB Publication Getting Started with Chatbots

Description

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.
Tagline
A complete guide to build a better Chatbots

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
? 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.
? 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.
? Students, if they are seeking something where they can create and integrate the real-time chatbots in their projects.