{"id":3463,"date":"2016-11-13T15:09:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T15:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2016-11-14T22:12:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T22:12:12","slug":"owlbot-faiths-first-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3463","title":{"rendered":"Owlbot: Faith’s first chatbot (and barcamp)"},"content":{"rendered":"

For her talk at Barcamp Southampton<\/a> yesterday, Faith did a presentation on owls, together with a chatbot she trained to answer questions about owls<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We've arrived at #BarcampSouthampton<\/a> and Faith has already staked her claim on the board pic.twitter.com\/i1H5Zku4Mh<\/a><\/p>\n

— Dale Lane (@dalelane) November 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve brought Grace to a couple of barcamps with me before: Barcamp Berkshire<\/a> and Barcamp Bournemouth<\/a>. But this was Faith’s first time. <\/p>\n

She decided that she wanted to do a talk on owls. That wasn’t a big surprise… she’s a little bit obsessed with owls<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For her first presentation, I suggested that instead of just talking to slides, we could make a chatbot to do the presentation with her. That means she wouldn’t have to do as much talking, as her presentation could be her asking questions and the chatbot answering them. <\/p>\n

As well as hopefully making it a little easier for her to present, I thought it’d be a good chance for me to introduce her to the idea of chatbots<\/a> – what they are, and how you make them. <\/p>\n

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You can try her bot out at owl-chat.eu-gb.mybluemix.net<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n