API.AI is a lot more than a chatbot. It does a brilliant job of determining what is meant by what is said and does a great job of conversational awareness allowing one question or statement to build on the last statement or question. This was a core piece of EZ-AI but was bought out by Google. It is now the core of their Google home product. It can be tied into Amazon skills also.

Yeah this is amazing. Would love a plugin ....... hint hint....

It interfaces with Cortana; maybe that's the way to "plug it in" to EZB?

I also thought this would work great for ARC...it just took me five minutes to set up a functioning bot and the interface looks like it is not too hard to grab!

Maybe @CochranRobotics could share how to set this up for ARC? As he messed around with it quiet a bit he probably knows how to send and retrieve data using POST and GET? There is an inbuilt option for webhooks...

Could be a good topic for the next Technology Today Show :D