CodeLab: ChatBot using API.AI

In this 2 hour workshop, we’ll learn more about the concepts behind chatbots, the progress that technology has made on machine-learning, and more concretely, how you’ll be able to create & design your own chatbots using Google’s API.AI agent platform and Cloud Functions for implementing the business logic required by your bot.

Session agenda:

• Intro and welcome
• The concepts behind chatbots
• Discovery of the API.AI conversational interface platform
• Introduction to Cloud Functions
• Hands-on: let’s build our own chatbot with API.AI and its logic in Cloud Functions
• Wrapup

Pre-requisites:

• A laptop that you should bring; charged
• Some basic knowledge with JavaScript
• You need Google Cloud account to use Google Cloud Functions (https://cloud.google.com/free/)