Sorry for the typing bugs from my mobile phone

Good to make EZ Robots as smart as we can.

I would really be interested in this as well.

Yes, this would be very interesting...anyone sees a big difference to api.ao aka dialogflow?

https://dialogflow.com/

DataMonsters and the linked GoogleDoc gives a good breakdown of all the chat services.

But I think it is important to remembers many of theses services can do far more than offer chat services. Many of them are cognitive services where intelligent chat is just one thing that they can do.

And I think it is important that we all understand that utilizing any of these cognitive services or chatbots will not make your robot intelligent or bypass work to make your robot intelligence in itself. In fact it will create more work even with plugins to create scripts within ARC and scripts on the side of the service in order to achieve your goals from connecting to services likes these.

My concern is that sometimes from posts I read I worry some folks think connecting to these cognitive services will be for their robot the equivalent of Mario finding and eating a mushroom to become big, like in the Mario Brothers game.

And the reality is these services can offer powerful modern tools to make our robots smarter, but it will continue to require some heavy scripting to "make Mario big".

I am always curious about the new stuff out there, but yes I think @JustinRatliff is so right about this...it takes a lot of time and effort to get stuff done using those cognitive services, even when perfect ARC integration is provided!

The api.ai plugin works very good and the service has a steep lerning curve, so you can get stuff done...but still it is not working everything out for you, there is a lot of work and one needs to have a clear goal on what should be accomplished!

I am happy another cognitive service is being recognized in the community and there are people out there ready to give it a shot! Lets see how far we can push this!

Please make this so I can win Jeopardy.

I have an interest in how I can use Watson not only for adapting dialog in a Watson chat bot , but also with conversation and data bases geared towards a specific market.

Let’s say for instance Alan ( my robot) is installed in a hotel or a merchant store, as an access point for information. Using data and dialog scripted around a certain product or services, allows one to adapt and fine tune information that a customer might ask about a specific product.

It’s a fascinating thing watch and unfold ( AI and chatting) as services like Watson begin functioning like complex human language for chatbots, the more people will feel comfortable exchanging information with new technologies. We now have three Alexa’s in the house and it’s amazing how quickly you adopt speaking and interacting with them. More so than Siri, which I rarely use on my IPhone. Maybe pushing that button to talk breaks the the magic?!?

Anyways this stuff is just evolving so quickly! Being able to merge these evolving technologies with EZ Robots makes those robots seem even more impressive and useful!