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AI Applications with Watson
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Course
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.
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.
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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.
