Episode 23: JavaScript and Bots for Improving User Experiences
We talk with Michael Szul about what is and isn't a bot, understanding natural language processing, and his advice for anyone starting out in bot development.
Recording date: 2019-02-12
John Papa @John_Papa
Ward Bell @WardBell
Michael Szul @szul
Resources:
- Bots and Beer newsletter
- Tensor Flow
- Botframework
- Amazon Echo Auto
- Luis.ai
- BotBuilderCommunity
- Project Murphy
- How to Build a Notification That You Won’t Hate
- Clarkio on Twitter
- Lifx API
- Twillio
- Microsoft Bot Framework v4 Node Tutorial
- Microsoft Bot Framework .NET Core (V4)
- 7 Chatbot Use Cases That Actually Work
- Expensify
Someone to follow
Timejumps
- 02:32 Guest introduction
- 04:04 What is a bot?
- 10:44 Sponsor: DevIntersection
- 11:25 What are you building?
- 28:26 Understanding nature language processing
- 35:11 Sponsor: Nativescript
- 35:45 Any advice for folks starting out?
- 39:08 What's the best example of a bot framework?
- 43:03 Generational divide of trusting chat bots
- 45:50 Someone to follow