Chatbot is a computer Program which simulate the human conversation.

You can ask questions to chatbot, it can answer them with its own Intelligence.

It may also take actions based upon your queries . Suppose you need to know the traffic condition around your area . Usually You have seen so many web portal for this purposes . These Portals have user friendly Interface . In these Portal , You have to provide all input in Structured Format . Which usually gives us the feeling that we are dealing a machine .

In the opposite side, When we talk to any human, You can freely ask like –

Tell me about the traffic around my Home .

How is traffic near by {Location} .

These to looks different but has same Intents . You will always get the response because of Human Intelligence . A human can map two or more different sentence which has same sense or Intents . Now if you get such response from computers and machines .You will feel that You are talking to a human . Hey feeling surprised ! obviously you can get . Thanks to the #Artificial-Intelligence community and Its Scientist . They contribute and Provide us NLP enable Chatbot . These can act like a human . To make your understanding clear about what is chatbot ? I will Introduce You with few real time chatbot.

Top Real Time Chatbot –

Please Interact with your virtual friends(chatbots) and feel the power of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. I promise, You will start loving them –

1. Rose
   This is also a human like chatbot. I personally find it very engaging. A very simple user interface with most sophisticated NLP back end. Have a look at its user Interface –
   

2. MITSUKU
   This is a award winning real time chatbot . You can enjoy chatting with it . The Deep Learning Technology inside it make it more intelligent when you chat more with it . So many International Organizations have awarded this chatbot .
   

So I think, You must have understood what is chatbot.

You need not Write too much code to build a chatbot. There are also some open source framework where you can customize the code like RASA.AI .

Chatbot is not a magic, Its AI –

Yes! Its not a magic. I agree, it looks like magic. When computer start understanding English, It is obvious to say magic. You know its all about NLP {Natural Language Processing}. If you do not use NLP in chatbot, It will not be able to recognize the intent. Lets understand it with an example –

Suppose You Train your machine with a question –

Question - What is chatbot ?

Answer – Its AI based human conversation simulation .

Now If you ask “Tell me about chatbot“ , It will not recognize it with the same question earlier asked . Now think How many type of similar question you need to train your Machine to achieve a single Intent . There could be thousands variation of a single intent .

How to build a chatbot –

Well, I will cover that in the upcoming posts.

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