Chatbots, historically maligned as “weak AI,” are finally transforming from ugly duckling to beautiful swan. According to recent predictions, chatbots (#ConvComm) will be big. Like, Google-killing big, heralding the end of apps and search as we know it — or so proclaimed Forbes and The Wall Street Journal.

Using the pb-html package, you can now easily deploy an application which provides a web interface for chatting with your chatbot.

If you’re familiar with the now deprecated AIML 1.0 system, you’ll probably remember how easy it was to publish your chatbot to a webpage…