Chatbots

You might find this is the coolest application! Computers talking to us like humans has been a fascinating desire. It gives us a sense of computers being intelligent. However, most of the chatbot systems built earlier were based on a knowledge base and rules that define which response to pick from it. This made chatbots a very closed domain and they sounded quite unnatural. But with a little tweaking to the encoder-decoder architecture, we saw machine translation can actually make a chatbot generate a response on its own. The encodings learn the context of the input sentences, and, if the whole architecture is trained on sample queries and responses, whenever the system sees a new query, it can generate its response based on the learning. A lot of platforms like IBM Watson, Bottr, and rasa are building deep learning powered tools to build chatbots for business purposes.