Having got a taste of chatbots and their brief history, in this chapter we'll get our hands dirty by building your first chatbot. We will build a chatbot that will act as a city tour guide for the user. We will use popular tourist conversations, such as learning about the city, figuring out things to do, and searching for places to eat as example tasks. We will explore how to use the various tools in the toolkit to build a chatbot capable of performing these conversational tasks.
Let us explore a popular tool, Chatfuel, and learn how to build a chatbot from scratch. Chatfuel is a tool that enables you to build a chatbot without having to code at all. It is a web-based tool with a GUI editor that allows the user to build a chatbot in a modular fashion. In addition to building chatbots, it also enables developers to monitor and manage the bot...