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AI Applications with Watson
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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.
Online Live Classes
Intermediate Level
Mentor Support
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It is not possible to enroll for individual courses on this program. If you wish to take this course, please enroll for the full program.
Course Outline
General Information
Syllabus
Grading Scheme
Module Introduction
Learning Objectives
Building AI Applications (3:03)
The Technologies We Are Going To Use (2:30)
Lab 1: Creating Watson Instances (1hr)
Graded Quiz
What's Next
Module Introduction
Learning Objectives
Understanding Watson Discovery (6:07)
Creating a Discovery Collection (6:52)
Lab 2: Creating a Discovery Collection (1h)
Graded Quiz
What's Next
Module Introduction
Learning Objectives
Integrating Watson Assistant & Discovery (3:56)
Creating a Chatbot with Watson Assistant (6:21)
Lab 3: Creating a Chatbot (1h)
Adding Discovery to the Chatbot (5:30)
Lab 4: Adding Discovery to the Chatbot (2h)
Graded Quiz
What's Next
Module Introduction
Learning Objectives
Voice Options for Your Chatbot (6:04)
Lab 5: Adding Speech Services (1h)
Graded Quiz
What's Next
Module Introduction
Learning Objectives
Understanding Deployment Options (4:52)
Deploying Your Chatbot to Facebook Messenger (3:16)
Lab 6: Deploying to Facebook Messenger (1hr)
Deploying Your Chatbot to Slack (3:10)
Lab 7: Deploying to Slack (1h)
Graded Quiz
What's Next
Module Introduction
Learning Objective
Peer-graded Assignment - Create a Student Advisor
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FAQs
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.
Type of certificate
IBM Professional Certificate
About this course
06 Modules
01 Skills
Includes
07 Hands-on labs
12 Videos
01 Project
Create
Create a student advisor chatbot
Exercises to explore
IBM Watson
Python
Jupyter Notebooks
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