This is an introduction keynote for the first Lausanne Chatbots Meetup. It's an introduction to the concepts of chatbots, and an overview of the main platforms available.
Video is available on youtube: https://youtu.be/PpdO7otre6g
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“A service or information
triggered contextually in
a conversation”
@BenBrown *
* Ben Brown is the co-founder of Howdy.AI
What is a chatbot?
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1950 - Turing test
http://loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html
“Are there
imaginable digital
computers which
would do well in
the imitation
game?”
Can machine think?
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https://futurism.com/images/the-history-of-chatbots-infographic/
1972 PARRY
1966 ELIZA
1988 JABBERWACKY http://www.jabberwacky.com
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc439
1992 Dr SBAITSO
1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
1995 ALICE
2001 SMARTER CHILD
2006 IBM WATSON
2010 APPLE SIRI
2012 GOOGLE ASSISTANT
2015 ALEXA
2015 CORTANA
2015 BOTS FOR MESSENGER
2016 MICROSOFT TAY
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1972 PARRY
1966 ELIZA
1988 JABBERWACKY http://www.jabberwacky.com
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc439
1992 Dr SBAITSO
1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
1995 ALICE
2001 SMARTER CHILD
2006 IBM WATSON
2010 APPLE SIRI
2012 GOOGLE NOW
2015 ALEXA
2015 CORTANA
2015 BOTS FOR MESSENGER
2016 MICROSOFT TAY
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1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
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@JonBruner *
* Jon Bruner is directing O'Reilly's program as it relates to artificial intelligence and bots
https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/infographic-the-bot-platform-ecosystem
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SPEECH TO TEXT
NATURAL
LANGUAGE
PROCESSING
MACHINE
LEARNING
ACTION
Different problems to solve
• Context
• Intent
• Entities
extraction
• Optimisation
• Human training
• Dataset training
• CUI
• VUI
• GUI