Hands-on Chatbots with Google Dialogflow

Chatbots are voice-aware bots, i.e. computer programs designed to simulate human conversations with users.  This course introduces Dialogflow, Google's conversational interface for bots, devices and applications.

• DialogFlow is state-of-the-art, launched in September 2016
• No deep learning or natural language processing expertise is needed to build even very complex bots
• Provides an intuitive way of specifying the conversational interface
• Automatically and dynamically adjusts conversational responses
• Easy to build, test and publish apps
• Supports one-click integration with other chat platforms such as Slack and Facebook

In this course, we will cover:

• The big picture: How conversation flows in Dialogflow
• Interaction models: Intents, entities, contexts and their resolution into API calls
• Managing dialogs: Handling the flow of conversation using linear and non-linear dialogs.
• Fulfilment models: Using webhooks to fulfill user intents and how to connect to external services to respond to queries.
• Deployment: Deploying a flask app to Heroku, and a Cloud Function to the Google Cloud Platform
• Third-party integration: Integrating a bot with Slack