My First AI Bot

Michael Spivey Michael Spivey

Michael Spivey

Staff Engineer at Red Ventures

Published Feb 26, 2017
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I wrote my first AI bot last weekend using Azure Bot Service and LUIS. Azure Bot Service acts as a connector to multiple messaging platforms, like Skype and Facebook Messenger. It is implemented using c# Azure Functions or Node.js. Then I used LUIS for taking a sentence and parsing out the intent and entities. Once I had the intent and entities for a message someone sent over Skype or Facebook Messenger, then I mapped it to different C# methods that would acquire the data from web services to provide a response. The APIs I used to acquire data were from 3DPrintMakers.com.

LUIS stands for Language Understanding Intelligent Service and is one of Microsoft's Cognitive Services.

The bot can be accessed in one of four ways. Ask the bot "what's new?", "what's trending?" or "find batman" using any one of these ways:


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