Hands-On Machine Learning on Google Cloud Platform
by Giuseppe Ciaburro, V Kishore Ayyadevara, Alexis Perrier, Bryan Fry, Antonio Gulli
Summary
In this chapter, we discovered the amazing world of chatbots. Chatbots are robots, that interact with users through a chat and are able to assist them by carrying out extremely limited tasks: providing information on a current account, buying a ticket, receiving news about the weather, and so forth.
To begin with, we took a look at the fundamentals of the topic, starting with the history of chatbots in the 1950s, with the efforts of Alan Turing and various subsequent implementations of chatbots that perfected the basic concepts. Eliza, Parry, Jabberwacky, Dr. Sbaitso, ALICE, SmarterChild, and IBM Watson are the most important examples. As time passed and technology evolved, more and more sophisticated AI methods were created.
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