1.
Introduc)on
into Chat Bots
Alyona Medelyan
@zelandiya

2.
But why?

3.
1. The app boom is over
Google Trends graph for app
3 of top 5 most downloaded apps are chat apps
stagna&on!

4.
2. People hang out in chats
Facebook Messenger
1 Billion ac)ve users as of July 2016
Slack
3 Million ac)ve users at 10h/day as of July 2016
app vs whatsapp

5.
3. Chat is a beOer experience
More natural More effort

6.
4. BeOer AI is more accessible
Machine Learning: Scikit Learn, H2O, Weka, Apache Spark
NLU: Word2vec, StanfordNLP, Gensim, ChaOerbot
Deep Learning: Theano, Torch, Caffe, TensorFlow
AIaaS: IBMWatson, LUIS, Wit.ai, Pandorabots, Api.ai
AI as a Service
or DYI Open Source

7.
Ok, I’ll build a bot.
Where do I start?

8.
Bot
AI
Pla[orm
Channel
Slackbot, Cortana, X.ai, Siri, Google Now, Alexa skill, PizzaBot, <your bot?>
Wit.ai, LUIS, Api.ai
Messenger Bots, MS Bot Framework, Pandorabots, Alexa Skills Kit
Slack, Messenger, SMS, Website, Telegram, Echo
The Basics
Not all Bots need AI!

9.
natural language
UI
conversa)on
one task
anything StarTrek
Computer
rela)onship
Her
KiO
God bots:
Siri, Cortana, Google Now
Shopping
Mee)ng scheduling
Pizza bot
Alexa
Eliza
The Smarts

10.
The Conversa)on
Advanced Natural
Language
Processing Tools
for Bot Makers
by Stanfy

11.
The Humans hiding
behind the Chatbots
by Bloomberg
Further reading & listening
Bots Podcast
by O’Reilly
Good bot, bad bot
by ArcTouch
Advanced
Natural Language
Processing
Tools for Bot Makers
by Stanfy