Summary: The bot uses Google dialog-flow (formerly api.ai) to create a general-purpose chat-bot that is capable of small-talk.

Tech Stack used : node.js dialog-flow (api.ai)

Available integration channels: Microsoft Cortana, Facebook Messenger, Skype, Slack, Telegram, Amazon Alexa, Twitter, Kik, Line, Cisco Spark, Cisco Tropo, Twilio and Twilio IP

Language Support: English, French, Dutch, Russian, Ukranian, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese,Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese

Usage Instructions: Visit the below URL where the chat has been deployed. https://bot.dialogflow.com/vishallambe

GitHub repository: https://github.com/vishallambe/ai_bot_vishal

Benefits of using Google’s dialog-flow over AWS Lex or IBM Watson:

1. Exceptionally good at training ML models in real-time for small talk and conversational evolving inputs.
2. Easily integrated with third party API’s to get results for web search, weather information, currency conversion.
3. Built-in functionality of a firebase functions (Google’s equivalent of AWS Lambda).
4. No need of a third party provider to host applications for user testing. Apps can be hosted on dialog-flow’s domain reducing the roll-out time and effort.
5. Detailed logs of chats, errors available on the console.
6. Configurable Machine Learning threshold.
7. No pre requisites, can be implement with any language that supports REST such JavaScript, Node.js and etc
8. Support NLP