How to Build a Chatbot

Presented to the Idea to IPO meetup on 1/17

IBM Cloud: http://ibm.biz/ibmcloudchatbot Code pattern: http://ibm.biz/chatbot011718

https://developer.ibm.com/code/labs/#!/lab/Watson-Conversation-Intro

About Me

@MissAmaraKay

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Agenda

• Open discussion - Has anyone built a chatbot? Have you interacted with a chatbot?
• Why chatbots? (for the non-believers to believe!)
• Guts of a chatbot
• Hands on
  • Step 1: Designing Your Bot
    • Design a simple set of Intents and Entities
  • Step 2: Train Watson Conversation Service
    • Login to IBM Cloud, create Conversation Service
    • Build a dialog, slots
  • Step 3:Test Watson Conversation Service
    • Test dialog flow
• Bot Asset Exchange
• Deployment options [optional demo]
  • Slack
  • Botkit (Slack, Facebook Messenger, Twilio, etc)
• Analytics/Improve tab [optional demo]

Pattern Used

http://ibm.biz/chatbot011718