Hands-On Chatbots and Conversational UI Development

Creating an API.AI agent

Let's first create an API.AI agent to understand user utterances in the conversational tasks that we enumerated previously. Because we have already discussed building API.AI agents extensively in Chapter 3, Let's Talk Weather, the following sequence of steps is going to be brief. However, we will be interfacing with the agent in a different manner compared to how it was done in Chapter 3, Let's Talk Weather:

1. Go to api.ai in your web browser. Log on with your Google credentials and click GO TO CONSOLE.
2. Click Create new agent. You will find this in the bottom of the drop-down list listing all the agents created by you so far. 
3. Give it a name, description, and choose time zone. Click Save.
4. Click Entities. Create new ...