My Man Friday

Now that we are in the last chapter of the book, let's do something really interesting. How about we build a bot that acts as your very own man Friday. Imagine asking the bot to do tasks such as organizing your to-do list, reminding you of tasks and meetings, and so on. In the last chapter, we developed an Alexa skill to browse through the TV programs for the day. In this chapter, we will explore the process of building skills on Google Assistant. Google Assistant is Google's offering of a personal assistance chatbot like iPhone's Siri and Amazon's Alexa. You can interact with Google Assistant on a variety of channels such as Allo mobile app, Allo for web, and Google Home. 

Google Home is a smart speaker similar to Amazon Echo and is powered by Google Assistant. In other words, Google Home is the embodiment in which Assistant lives....