AI Applications with Watson

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AI Applications with Watson

AI Applications with Watson

Learn how to build chatbots using Watson AI services. Explore Watson Assistant, Discovery, Speech to Text, and Text to Speech. Create your own chatbot and deploy it.

Take your first step in developing this critical skill for a career in AI.

This course is sponsored by Pacific Lutheran University in collaboration with SkillUp Online.

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1 Course Overview Chatbots have become invaluable to businesses across many industries. They save time, significantly reduce cart abandonment, and grow sales. By interacting with customers through speech and text recognition, chatbots now answer simple and complicated questions quickly and effectively. Thus, individuals who develop the sought-after skills in this arena can look forward to working with a fascinating aspect of AI. In this course, you will be introduced to the technologies used to set up key Watson services on the IBM Cloud. You will explore Watson Discovery, and learn how integration between Watson Assistant and Discovery works in principle. You will create a chatbot by leveraging Watson Assistant, and you will use IBM Cloud Functions to integrate it with Watson Discovery. You will bring a voice to the chatbot by integrating Watson Assistant with Watson Speech APIs. Plus, you will deploy your chatbot to various channels, including Facebook Messenger and Slack. For individuals keen to pursue a career in AI, learning to build and deploy chatbots is a critical skill that will help you progress in this exciting field. 2 How It Works This course comprises six purposely designed modules that take you on a carefully defined learning journey. Please note that it is part of the IBM Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) Professional Certificate Program. You cannot enroll for this course separately. If you wish to take this course, you will need to enroll for the full program. It is an instructor-led course which runs to a fixed schedule, with set start and finish dates. It is driven forward by your instructor and features live sessions that are aired at a set time. You will, however, have time to complete certain activities at your own pace outside of the live sessions. And you will be encouraged to stay connected with your learning community, mentors, and instructors through the course discussion space. Modules also include videos, hands-on labs, exercises, and exams. The materials for each course are accessible from the start of the course and will remain available for the duration of your enrollment. Your IBM Professional Certificate will be issued once you have successfully completed the course. 3 Skills You Will Gain After completing this course, you will have: Ability to work with large volumes of unstructured data using Watson Discovery. Ability to build a chatbot and integrate Watson Assistant and Discovery Ability to give a voice to a chatbot. Ability to deploy chatbots to various channels. 4 Prerequisites An understanding of how to create AI chatbots without programming. Basic Python programming.

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IBM Professional Certificate

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About this course

06 Modules

01 Skills

includes

Includes

07 Hands-on labs

12 Videos

01 Project

create

Create

Create a student advisor chatbot

exercises

Exercises to explore

IBM Watson

Python

Jupyter Notebooks

You’ll learn with these experts

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Rav Ahuja

Global Program Director

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IBM Watson for AI is a popular tool that helps organizations to automate complex processes, which in turn saves staff time and improves productivity. It has been designed to enable businesses to gather data from a wide range of sources, so that they can then glean meaningful insights from the data. IBM Watson offers a portfolio of AI capabilities that include tools for building AI models, as well as pre-built applications. For more information on IBM Watson for AI, we recommend you click here to find out more directly from IBM:https://www.ibm.com/watson/about.

IBM Watson offers a suite of pre-built applications. Examples include: IBM Watson Assistant, Watson Discovery, Watson Natural Language Understanding, Watson Speech to Text, Watson Text to Speech, Watson Knowledge Studio, IBM Watson Works, Watson Language Translator, Watson Natural Language Classifier, Watson Advertising Accelerator, Watson Advertising Conversations, and many more. If youd like to discover more about the IBM Watson pre-built applications, we suggest you click here to learn more directly from IBM:https://www.ibm.com/uk-en/watson/products-services.

This course is part of the IBM Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) Professional Certificate Program, which is sponsored by PLU. It is an instructor-led course. This means live sessions are delivered at set times, and the modules start and finish on set dates. However, when you enroll for the program, you will see in your dashboard that you have access to the information for this course and related modules from the start. You are therefore able to familiarize yourself with some of the material in advance of the live classes.

This course is part of the IBM Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) Professional Certificate Program sponsored by PLU. Only learners who have enrolled onto the program can take this course. You will earn an IBM Professional Certificate for completing this course. However, you will also gain IBM Professional Certification as an AI professional if you successfully complete the whole program. Plus, you will also earn a PLU Certificate of Completion of the program as well.

AI Applications with Watson is part of the IBM Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) Professional Certificate Program sponsored by PLU. It is an instructor-led course. This means you attend live sessions that are aired at pre-set times, and the modules start and finish on set dates. Your assignments will also be due on set dates. However, you will have the opportunity to enjoy some self-paced work as well, for you are able to complete certain activities in your own time. To give you an idea of how much time you should allocate to your learning, the program lasts for 12 weeks, and we estimate the you need to dedicate approximately 2 hours a week to your studies.
AI Applications with Watson

Course Offering

certificate

Type of certificate

IBM Professional Certificate

course

About this course

06 Modules

01 Skills

includes

Includes

07 Hands-on labs

12 Videos

01 Project

create

Create

Create a student advisor chatbot

exercises

Exercises to explore

IBM Watson

Python

Jupyter Notebooks

You’ll learn with these experts

profile-image

Rav Ahuja

Global Program Director

View on LinkedIn

Newsletters & Updates

Subscribe to get the latest tech career trends, guidance, and tips in your inbox.