Building Chatbots with Amazon Lex

Voice and Text Chatbots for Slack, Facebook and more

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Chatbots are a hot new technology - a great way to convey complex information to your customers in a free-flowing, conversational way. Amazon Lex is a great way to build them - an AWS service for building conversational interfaces for any applications using voice and text.

  • Amazon Lex is state-of-the-art, launched in April 2017
  • Powered by the same deep learning based engine as Amazon Alexa
  • No deep learning or natural language processing expertise is needed to build even complex bots
  • Provides an intuitive way of specifying the conversational interface
  • Automatically and dynamically adjusts conversational responses
  • Easy to build, test and publish app
  • Supports integration with other platforms such as Slack and Facebook

In this course, we will cover:

  • The big picture - voice and text interfaces and current trends in human-computer interaction
  • How Alexa, Lex, Echo and the other bits of the Amazon ecosystem come together
  • Interaction models: Utterances, intents, slots, prompts and their resolution into API calls
  • Fulfilment models: Using AWS Lambdas to fulfil user intents, and how AWS lambdas provide smooth, no-ops, auto-scaling code endpoints
  • Third-party integration: How a chatbot can be added to your Slack workspace

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Loonycorn is comprised of a couple of individuals —Janani Ravi and Vitthal Srinivasan—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Stanford. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

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