![]() ![]() ![]() I got to work deploying a light-weight Flask app server on a micro-tier AWS instance and in less than an hour had a working chatbot. It wasn't much to brag about it did two things: 1) "reverse: hello" would have the bot return "olleh" and 2) a pig-latin translator where "pigify: good morning" would return "oodgay orningmay." Ok, on to something more difficult and useful. I got started with the documentation for developers on how to access Google Chat APIs found here. I then stumbled on "how to build a chatbot" article here. After all, it is just group chat, but Google also quietly launched a set of APIs that can allow a G-Suite customer to build an AI-powered Chatbot native inside of Google Chat. This is actually very cool (skip the next paragraph if you want to get to the punchline). So, I spent some time hacking away at it this past week it and thought I would share my experiences. This might not seem game-changing at first glance. Last week, Google launched a new product to its business customers called Hangouts Chat. For those of you that know what Slack is, or for that matter, are over the age of 40 and can remember what AOL Chat Rooms or Bulletin Board Services were, this functionality will be familiar to you. If not, the simplest way I can describe it is: "imagine an online room dedicated to a project or topic, where attendees can chat and share information with each other, and new attendees can join mid-stream and see all of the previous conversations in one place." For G-Suite customers. ![]()
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