Build a Chatbot with Watson APIs

About this Course

IBM has created an AI platform named Watson that gives businesses and developers access to powerful tools for text and speech analysis, computer vision, and more. Watson APIs consist of a suite of services used to process or analyze data to answer questions and make decisions. This course will show you how to build a chatbot with Node.js and the Conversation and Discovery services from Watson. You'll also learn how to setup your bot on the IBM Cloud platform.

What you'll learn

• Set up personal Watson API instances on IBM Cloud
• Send and receive data from Watson APIs
• Process text using the Watson Conversation service
• Process text using the Watson Discovery service
• Configure a conversational dialog with intents and entities

Teachers

• Ben Jakuben

  Ben is a father, husband, son, friend, and teacher. He is firmly committed to the belief that the world is evolving to a better place.

• Armen Pischdotchian

  Armen currently mentors university faculty and students and conducts enablement sessions for both IBMers and partners pertaining to the IBM Business Digital Group. Armen has consulted and deployed various cognitive solutions at universities around the world.

  Armen started at IBM 12 years ago as a course developer and trainer for IoT solutions. He holds a BS in Organizational and Behavioral Psychology, MS in Computer Science and an MBA in Computer Information Systems. Armen writes on medium.com and has co-authored IBM Red Books. He also holds an IBM Certified Application Developer - Watson V3 Certification and is a Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM).

  Find him on Twitter @apischdo.

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