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Announcing Dialog Skill Analysis for Watson Assistant
Building AI assistants that work well for your business is not as easy as it should be. That’s because it’s hard to understand why an assistant makes mistakes and, more importantly, how we can minimize those mistakes with the limited time available at our disposal…
I’m on the Watson Assistant algorithms team and our mission is to make assistants (aka chatbots) much easier to design and launch. That’s why we just released the Dialog Skill Analysis Notebook, a new Python framework along with an easy-to-use Python notebook to help you quickly and effectively build AI assistants using Watson Assistant! …
Navneet Rao
Machine Learning @ Thumbtack
