Speaker: Jesus Martin, BEEVA
2016 was supposed to be the year of messaging and also when chatbots would stand alone as the natural replacement for traditional apps. Unfortunately, at the end of 2017 we are still facing unsolved problems.
This session gives a short overview of the chatbot history, from the very beginning to the current state of the art. It also sets expectations about what we can do with chatbots, and explain how to deal with current problems we face when creating a chatbot design that works. Join the webinar to get a complete design framework to building great chatbots.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand the history of chatbots and where we are heading
- Know where are we on the user-chatbot interaction
- Learn what to take into account about chatbot design before writing a single line of code
- Get a complete chatbot design framework
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18. THE TURING TEST (1950)-
A computer
would deserve to be called intelligent
if it could deceive a human
into believing that it was human.
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56. NLP… a really complex dutty
Natural Language is meant for efficient communication
among humans, which implies:
We are ambiguous.
We skip a lot of common sense information.
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57. We are ambiguous
Ambiguity on a word level
“paint” can be a noun or a verb
“plant” lots of meanings
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58. We are ambiguous
Ambiguity on a word level
“paint” can be a noun or a verb
“plant” lots of meanings
Syntactic ambiguity
“Foreigners are hunting dogs”
“The man show a kid with a telescope”
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59. We skip information
Anaphora and co-references:
“Juan stopped for a coffee on a bar before eating on
a restaurant. The waiter was from Italy”
(bar’s waiter? restaurant’s waiter?)
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60. We skip information
Anaphora and co-references:
“Juan stopped for a coffee on a bar before eating on
a restaurant. The waiter was from Italy”
(bar’s waiter? restaurant’s waiter?)
Assumption:
“Pablo doesn’t run anymore”
assumes that Pablo used to go running.
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85. Fun but not silly
Confident but not cocky
Smart but not stodgy
Informal but not sloppy
Helpful but not overbearing
Expert but not bossy
Weird but not inappropriate
http://styleguide.mailchimp.com/voice-and-tone/
http://voiceandtone.com/
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107. category brand model
I’m looking for an apple - [category?] [model?]
I’m looking for a smartTV - [brand?] [model?]
108. category brand model
I’m looking for an apple - [category?] [model?]
I’m looking for a smartTV - [brand?] [model?]
Give me an iPhone - [model?]
109. category brand model
I’m looking for an apple - [category?] [model?]
I’m looking for a smartTV - [brand?] [model?]
Give me an iPhone - [model?]
I want the Samsung S8 - [:O]