Building Conversational AI Applications with Deep Learning
The art of conversation is considered a uniquely human trait. The ability of machines to have a dialog with humans has been a research topic for many years. Alan Turing proposed the now-famous Turing Test to see if a human could converse with another human and a machine through written messages, and identify each participant as machine or human correctly. In recent times, digital assistants such as Alexa by Amazon and Siri by Apple have made considerable strides in conversational AI. This chapter discusses different conversational agents and puts the techniques learned in the previous chapters into context. While there are several approaches to building conversational agents, we'll focus on the more recent deep learning approaches and cover the following topics:
- Overview of conversational agents and their general architecture
- An end-to-end pipeline for building a conversational agent
- The architecture...
