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Overview
The AI Chatbots without Programming Certificate from EdX is offered in partnership with IBMx and is part of Foundations of AI Professional Certificate Program.
Chatbots are one of the most exciting and in-demand topics in tech. Businesses around the world are increasingly showing an interest in their potential for cost-saving and improving customer service availability.
In this course, you'll learn how to build chatbots powered by Watson and how to approach making money by selling chatbots to clients. We'll cover ways to sell chatbots to prospective clients online and offline. We'll explore how to plan and build chatbots using a visual tool provided by IBM. We'll offer methods for testing, analyzing, and improving your chatbots. And we'll teach you how to deploy your chatbots to websites via a handy WordPress plugin.
Leveraging the AI power of Watson Assistant, you will be able to accomplish all this without the need to write any code!
What you'll learn
- What chatbots are and why they are revolutionary;
- What Watson Assistant is and how you can leverage its AI capabilities;
- The key principles of good chatbot design;
- How to create your own chatbot without the need to write any code;
- How to deploy your chatbot on WordPress sites;
- How to enroll as an IBM Partner if you intend to build chatbots for customers;
- How to make money with chatbots.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
Module 0 - Chatbots
- Making money with Chatbots
- Becoming an IBM Partner
- Selling clients on the idea
- Finding new clients locally and online
Module 1 - Introduction to Chatbots
- What are chatbots?
- The emergence of Messengers and AI
- Who are chatbots for?
- The chatbot we're going to build
Module 2 - Watson Assistant (formerly Conversation)
- Watson Assistant components
- Intents
- Entities
- Dialog
- Dos and Dont's of dialog design
Module 3 - Building Our Chatbot: Intents and Entities
- Creating a workspace
- Defining Chit Chat intents
- Defining Domain-Specific intents
- Defining entities
Module 4 - Building Our Chatbot Dialog
- The default Welcome and Anything else nodes
- Creating Chit Chat dialog
- Simple conditions and responses
- Handling complex dialog flow
- Trying out and exporting our chatbot
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 14 days
- 2 hrs/week
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
- Self-paced
Campus Location
- Portland, United States
Disciplines
Computer Sciences Human Computer Interaction View 113 other Short Courses in Human Computer Interaction in United StatesWhat students do after studying
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- We created this course assuming no programming knowledge. Thanks to Watson Assistant, you don't need to be a programmer to build useful chatbots.
Tuition Fees
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