The Cloud Bot

Ritika Illa

Rachana Katkam

Evolution towards Bots

What are Bots?

Bot - a computer program that performs automatic repetitive tasks

Robot - a program that simulates human activity in machinery way

Chatbot - a service, powered by AI rules, that serves as chat/conversational interface

Bot-as-a-service - includes bot services used to develop and deploy chatbots on cloud

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Bots

Popular bots

• Mitsuku (2013)
• XiaoIce by MS (2014)

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Popular Drop-outs

• MS Tay (2016)
• Anna by Ikea (2016)
• ALICE (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity, AIML, 2009)

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ELIZA, first bot in 1960s, passed the Turing Test

Personal Digital Assistants (PDA’s)

Examples

Cloud-bot-as-a-service

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Azure Bot-as-a-Service

• Provides an integrated environment for bot development with MS Bot Framework connectors and BotBuilder SDKs
• Enables to build intelligent bots with complete ownership and control of your data
• Templates for basic, form, language understanding, question and answer, and proactive bots.

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MS Azure - Bot’s Life Cycle

References

https://chatbotsmagazine.com/a-visual-history-of-chatbots-8bf3b31dbfb2

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/bot-service/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-service-overview-introduction?view=azure-bot-service-4.0

https://dialogflow.com/

https://dev.botframework.com/

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Thank you!

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