AI Based Chat-Bot Using Azure Cognitive Services

Letters ruled the earlier era in communication. Then with emergence of Telephones and subsequently mobile phones, voice conversations ruled the communication. However, currently, with the emergence of Internet and lots of social media, chat conversations are ruling the world. Think of your closest friend and ask yourself, have you talked more or chatted more? So, with popularity of chat in today's world, many technologists envisioned that chat couldn't just be a mode of communication between humans but also between a human and a computer. That's what chat-bot is. In some cases it is powered by machine learning (the more you interact with the chat-bot the smarter it gets). Or, more commonly, it is driven using intelligent rules (i.e. if a person says this, respond with that). A chat-bot can be useful in providing services in a variety of scenarios. These services include life-saving health messages, it may also include weather forecast or to purchase a new laptop, smartphone, and anything else in between. Many of the big companies like Google (Google Assistant), Amazon (Alexa), Microsoft (Cortana) and Oracle are spending good amount of energy and money for research on personal assistants. The following subjects would be touched upon for the development of chat-bot: •Using Azure Bot Architecture •Using NLP for Language Understanding from the user and for the Language Generation •Using Custom Vision services for the image recognition