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

Chatbots today

In the previous section, we discussed what we believe will be possible in the coming years as the technology of AI evolves. As with any technology, we shouldn't wait until everything has been perfected. In this section and for the rest of the chapter, we'll focus on what is possible today and the best practices to make your own applications as useful and user friendly as possible.

In order to leverage the existing technology available today and given that current chatbots still need to be programmed specifically with domain data and specific intents, we should be careful to have a good design and a good plan in place to program our chatbot. Start with clearly defined goals for your chatbot and avoid trying to come up with a broad solution. Currently, chatbots that play in a well-defined and narrow domain space have a better chance of performing well and being useful than one that tries to be a "jack of all trades." A chatbot that is designed to...