Node Summit 2017 – BRIDGING THE SEMANTIC GAP – HOW TO BUILD A NATURAL LANGUAGE AWARE SERVICE FOR ALEXA AND SLACK – Daniel Khan

Bots are the new apps and AI will solve all our human-computer-interface problems. Everyone that ever communicated with Siri or Alexa knows, that things still are not as easy as marketing tries to make us believe. Artificial intelligence tends to have more to do with math and statistics and as such an AI based system can still feel more like Excel than like J.A.R.V.I.S. In this talk we will take the “buzz” out of recent emerging technologies and explore what we’ve learned when we created DAVIS, an open source natural language interface to our AI based product. Live coding is cool, so we will use this knowledge to create an AWS Lambda Function that use Natural Language Processing (NLP) to transform fuzzy natural language data from Alexa or Slack into discrete commands and return responses that again sound natural to a human.

Speaker:
Daniel Khan, Technology Lead, Dynatrace

Location: Level 1, Fisher East