Getting Started with Chatbots

This book makes you familiar with the concept of the chatbot. It explains what chatbot is, how does a chatbot work, and what exactly is the need for a chatbot in today’s era? It focuses on creating a bot using Amazon’s Lex service and getting the bot deployed on Facebook messenger for live chatting. This book
will train you on how to create a chatbot using Google’s Dialogflow and test the bot in Dialogflow console. It also demonstrates how to create a custom chatbot using Microsoft’s bot framework and enable the webhooks in Dialogflow and return the response from the custom bot to Dialogflow intents as a fulfilment response.

A complete guide to build a better Chatbots

Key Features
● Concept of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning
● How AI is involved in creating chatbots
● What are chatbots
● Chatbot development
● Live chatting
● Create chatbot with technologies such as Amazon Lex, Google Dialogflow, AWS Lambda, Microsoft Bot Framework, and Azure
● Deploy and talk to your bot

What will you learn
● Learn the concept of chatbot
● Learn how chatbots and AI work hand in hand
● Learn the concept of machine learning in chatbots
● Get familiar with chatbot services such as Amazon’s Lex and Google’s Dialogflow
● Learn how to write an AWS Lambda function
● Learn what webhooks are
● Learn about Microsoft’s Bot Framework
● Write your own custom chatbot
● Deploy the chatbot on Facebook Messenger, Google Assistant, and Slack
● Live chatting with your own chatbot

Who this book is for
● The developers, architects, and software/technology enthusiasts who are keen to learn the cutting-edge technologies and want to get a hands-on experience on AI by creating their own custom chatbots.
● Organizations, small companies, service-based/product-based setups which want to learn how to create a basic chatbot on their website and on social media to get more leads and reach to the end user for their business.
● Students, if they are seeking something where they can create and integrate the real-time chatbots in their projects.