Podcast
Episode 31
Chatbots, Conversational Software & Data Science (with Alan Nichol)
July 16th, 2018
chatbots
+2What is the current state-of-the-art in chatbots & conversational software? Where is the field heading?
About Alan Nichol
Alan Nichol is co-founder & CTO of Rasa, the open source machine learning toolkit for developers to expand bots beyond answering simple questions. He holds a PhD in Computer Simulation and Machine Learning from the University of Cambridge.
Links from the show
FROM THE INTERVIEW
- Rasa: Build great conversational AI in-house
- We don’t know how to build conversational software yet by Alan Nichol (OG post!)
- A New Approach to Conversational Software by Alan Nichol
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