Swift Chatbots for Fun! and Profit?

A talk on chatbot architecture and building chatbots with server-side Swift

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1. Swift Chatbots for Fun! and Profit? Ray Tsaihong @rmundo LINE
3. https://medium.com/hijiffy/are-chatbots-the-new-apps-1111c8eba296 https://chatbotslife.com/will-chatbots-end-the-mobile-apps-and-when-70537a688a70 https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/29/forget-apps-now-the-bots-take-over/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/03/31/the-end-of-apps-is-here-long-live-chat-bots/
6. 1988?
8. Why build a chatbot?
9. Why build a Swift chatbot?
10. Website Needs Front End App Backend Needs an App Chatbot Pure functionality
11. Chatbot by Oksana Latysheva from the Noun Project Messaging API Service LINE Facebook Telegram Kik Slack ChatBot Server
14. Chatbot Server POST https://myserver.com /callback
15. API Service POST https://api.line.me/v2/ bot/message/reply POST https://api.line.me/v2/ bot/message/push GET https://api.line.me/v2/ bot/message/{messageID}/ content
22. What, an XKCD Bot?!
23. http://xkcd.com/614/info.0.json { "month": "7", "num": 614, "link": "", "year": "2009", "news": "", "safe_title": "Woodpecker", "transcript": "[[A man with a beret and a woman are standing on a boardwalk, leaning on a handrail.]]\nMan: A woodpecker!\n<<Pop pop pop>>\nWoman: Yup.\n\n[[The woodpecker is banging its head against a tree.]]\nWoman: He hatched about this time last year. \n<<Pop pop pop pop>>\n\n[[The woman walks away. The man is still standing at the handrail.]]\n\nMan: ... woodpecker?\nMan: It's your birthday!\n\nMan: Did you know?\n\nMan: Did... did nobody tell you?\n\n[[The man stands, looking.]]\n\n[[The man walks away.]]\n\n[[There is a tree.]]\n\n[[The man approaches the tree with a present in a box, tied up with ribbon.]]\n\n[[The man sets the present down at the base of the tree and looks up.]]\n\n[[The man walks away.]]\n\n[[The present is sitting at the bottom of the tree.]] \n\n[[The woodpecker looks down at the present.]]\n\n[[The woodpecker sits on the present.]]\n\n[[The woodpecker pulls on the ribbon tying the present closed.]]\n\n((full width panel))\n[[The woodpecker is flying, with an electric drill dangling from its feet, held by the cord.]]\n\n{{Title text: If you don't have an extension cord I can get that too. Because we're friends! Right?}}", "alt": "If you don't have an extension cord I can get that too. Because we're friends! Right?", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/woodpecker.png", "title": "Woodpecker", "day": "24" }
24. http://xkcd.com/info.0.json { "month": "9", "num": 1885, "link": "", "year": "2017", "news": "", "safe_title": "Ensemble Model", "transcript": "", "alt": "I'm in talks with Netflix to produce an alternate-universe crime drama about the world where sliced bread was never re- legalized, but it's going slowly because they keep changing their phone numbers and the door lock codes at their headquarters.", "img": "https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ensemble_model.png", "title": "Ensemble Model", "day": "4" }
25. Https://github.com/rmundo/xkcd-chatbot
26. A Good Bot • Either it does everything • Or doesn’t do everything • Different facets of the same service • Keeps the interaction short
28. Messaging API Service LINE Facebook Telegram Kik Slack ChatBot Server NLP API 3rd Party NLP Service