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Build a Collaborative Chatbot with Google Sheets and TensorFlow
- blackbear_ 6y agoJust a fancier CTRL+F on a FAQ page. But it's quite amazing how easy it has become to use such complicated technologies to build useful products! (To be clear, I am not trying to belittle what was done in the blog post.)
- burgerquizz 6y agoI wish a CTRL+F could be as smart as how OP implemented it with similarity search - Good chrome extension idea ?
- creata 6y agoThe first demo of the OpenAI API is a search plugin for Chrome, but I don't think it's actually published. https://beta.openai.com/ https://beta.openai.com/
- saurkt 6y agoA similar feature of soft Ctrl+F is available in the web version of Microsoft Word. https://mspoweruser.com/find-feature-in-microsoft-word-whole-lot-better/ https://mspoweruser.com/find-feature-in-microsoft-word-whole... Disclaimer: Microsoft employee
- vinni2 6y agoI wonder if these simple methods can make these companies (https://www.boost.ai/ https://www.boost.ai/) which claim to build smart chatbots for enterprises obsolete.
- cbuskilla 6y agoThey do. We used to sell high-end projects for 50k a few years ago, but the price is dropping fast now the same projects costs about 1-5k dollars.
- vanillax 6y agoNot sure why you need the excel sheet. You can add all those intents in the dialog flow console itself? Cool none the less.
- icandoit 6y agoSo that you can hand it off to a non-technical person. Have you tried to teach anyone SQL before? A spreadsheet UI is accessible to a wider set of people.
- code4tee 6y agoPlease no more chatbots. Use the underlying tech to build a better search engine, but please stop recreating the concept of a search engine in a “chatbot.”
- jayd16 6y agoWhats frustrating is chatbots have the opportunity to be better than search. You can hold on to the conversation history as context for the next command and refine a search in a way a single command can't but no one seems to bother. As you say, chatbots are just poor search interfaces.
- alquemist 6y agoChatbots are the wrong metaphor. Having a series of successfully refining queries is useful. Pretending that this happens through a dialogue with an intelligent interlocutor is false and misleading given the current level of technology. And hopefully it stays that way. As a biological human, I'm absolutely not looking forward having silicon & iron competition.
- feral 6y agoIts a hard challenge to create bots that have good UX and help users, even without taking context/history into account. A lot of companies are just focusing on getting that right, and delivering that value first. But I think everyone building bots wants to go beyond that. I work on bots at Intercom and believe we can build bot experiences much better than traditional search. At the same time, I think google search is heading a conversational direction - context now carries over between queries, and it seems like that naturally trends towards more conversational or agent interfaces.