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AI Applications with Watson (edX)

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AI Applications with Watson (edX)

Turbocharge your chatbot's IQ and AI capabilities with IBM Watson Discovery and powered by Watson Assistant. Learn to use and program tools and assitant services such as Tone Analyzer and Personality Insights to build queries, extract information big data repositories.

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This course is part of the Applied AI Professional Certificate.

What you'll learn

  • Apply your foundational concepts of AI and machine learning into building and programming chatbots
  • Create a chatbot application that interacts in natural language in IBM Cloud
  • Synthesize data that can be queried to extract sentiment, concepts, entities, and taxonomy by using Watson Discovery
  • Reveal the emotions, sentiment, and customer preferences found in hotel reviews by using Tone - - - Analyzer and Personality Insights and feed that data to the chatbot

Syllabus

Lab 1: Build a Watson chatbot

  • Watson Assistant overview
  • Deploy Watson Assistant
  • Import the workspace
  • Create intents, entities, and dialog
  • Apply the Jump to action
  • Add multiple response conditions for a specific intent
  • Add responses for other intents
  • Test the chatbot

Lab 2: Build queries by using Watson Discovery

  • Watson Discovery overview
  • Access the news collection in the Discovery tool
  • Understand the data structure
  • Query the data by using filters
  • Query the data by using the query parameter
  • Query the data by using aggregation
  • Retrieve longer passages from the data
  • Train Discovery to improve relevancy

Lab 3: Enhance a chatbot with Discovery

  • Get the starter code and credentials
  • Integrate Discovery with the chatbot
  • Test the application

Lab 4: Gain insights by using Discovery

  • Get the data into Discovery
  • Find basic insights in the data

Lab 5: Analyze the tone from hotel reviews

  • Watson Tone Analyzer overview
  • Deploy the Tone Analyzer service
  • Analyze the tone in hotel review
  • Test the tone analysis

Lab 6: Analyze customer preferences

  • Watson Personality Insights overview
  • Deploy the Personality Insights service
  • Get the personality profile
  • Test the application
  • Final exam
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