Fantastic Chatbots and where to find them

Co-presented with Arrie Pieterse.

Voice and text based interfaces are making their way into our products and it turns out, are actually reasonably simple to build.

We will give you a ridiculously short, principled understanding of natural language processing, while building a chatbot that can handle registering a user for your site and responding to small talk. Now what if your chatbot could order you pizza on demand? Or repay an IOU in seconds? Let’s explore this together as we share our foray into text based interfaces and how we can apply them right now.

Demo integrations: Google Assistant (UI), Google Dialogflow (NLP), and Root.co.za for the banking API.

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Transcript

1. Fantastic Chatbots AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
3. WHY doth yee such a fantastic beast
4. CHATBOTS ARE MISUNDERSTOOD
5. CONVERSATION IS INTUITIVE
6. IT’S NOT PERFECT, YET
7. YOU can do this NOW
8. WHAT sayeth thee regarding chatbots
9. AN ALGEBRAIC FUNCTION
10. My name is Anna Hi Anna! I’m an annoying SlackBot! intent: ‘greeting’, entities: { name: ‘Anna’ }, context: { greeting_dialog: { name: ‘Anna’ } } APP LOGIC FULFILMENT
12. HOW shalt thou implement such bots
13. INTENT What’s the weather forecast tomorrow? Will it be cold tomorrow? Should I wear a jacket tomorrow?
14. My favourite colour is yellow ENTITY entity: {color: ‘yellow’}
15. You owe me 100 rand ENTITY entity: { currency: { unit: ‘ZAR’, amount: 100 } }
16. This cheeseburger is delicious! Damn right it is! CONTEXT
17. DEMO
18. Free Stuff
19. SIMON VAN DYK ARRIE PIETERSE THANK YOU! SLIDE DESIGN BY MATTHEW RICHARDS