You're reading from Artificial Intelligence with Python Your complete guide to building intelligent apps using Python 3.x

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839219535

Length 618 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

TensorFlow

Concepts

Artificial Intelligence

Authors (2):

Prateek Joshi

Alberto Artasanchez

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

2. Fundamental Use Cases for Artificial Intelligence FREE CHAPTER

3. Machine Learning Pipelines

4. Feature Selection and Feature Engineering

5. Classification and Regression Using Supervised Learning

6. Predictive Analytics with Ensemble Learning

7. Detecting Patterns with Unsupervised Learning

8. Building Recommender Systems

9. Logic Programming

10. Heuristic Search Techniques

11. Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming

12. Artificial Intelligence on the Cloud

13. Building Games with Artificial Intelligence

14. Building a Speech Recognizer

15. Natural Language Processing

16. Chatbots

17. Sequential Data and Time Series Analysis

18. Image Recognition

19. Neural Networks

20. Deep Learning with Convolutional Neural Networks

21. Recurrent Neural Networks and Other Deep Learning Models

22. Creating Intelligent Agents with Reinforcement Learning

23. Artificial Intelligence and Big Data

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

25. Index

Chatbot platforms

Some of the most widely used chatbots are those made possible by platforms developed by major vendors such as Google, AWS, and Microsoft. You should carefully consider their service offerings when you are choosing the technology stack for your chatbot. All three of these big vendors provide reliable and scalable cloud computing services that will help you to implement and customize your chatbot according to your needs. As of now, the most famous platforms to easily create text- or voice-based bots are the following:

DialogFlow (Google, formerly Api.ai)
Azure Bot Service (Microsoft)
Lex (AWS)
Wit.ai (Facebook)
Watson (IBM)

It is certainly possible to write powerful chatbots with the platforms listed here, as well as with other popular platforms. But we will now dive deeper into one platform in particular to gain a deeper understanding. Among the chatbot services, DialogFlow is a strong option for beginner users. We'll discuss...