Chatbots (also referred to as Virtual Assistants) have in the news recently. With advancements in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, Chatbots are becoming more consumer focused. Chatbots are revolutionising the Service Industry. Whether, you want to know about weather of your city, book flight tickets or know the status of your application, Chatbots are serving a crucial purpose. So Why are Chatbots getting so much of attention.

How does one build one’s own Chatbot? Should one build a chatbot ground up or leverage bot frameworks? What are the pros and cons? How does it scale to a million user base?

Join this talk to get answers to all such questions.

Contents

• Chatbots – An Introduction
• How are Chatbots revolutionizing the Service Industry?
• The Core Components – Intents & Entities
• NLP and NLU
• Speech recognition in Chatbots
• Scalability is key
• Quick bot development demo on AWS Lex
• Questions & Answers