From the course: Building Intelligent Chatbots on AWS (2019)

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Introduction to AWS Lex

Introduction to AWS Lex - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: Building Intelligent Chatbots on AWS (2019)

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Introduction to AWS Lex

- [Instructor] Chat bots, or bots, are supposed to be helpful. Ideally they can take input, either spoken or text, and conform it to how they can serve the user. Whether it's playing music, or ordering off the internet, the idea is that a bot takes spoken or text data, and determine what tasks to perform. Lex allows you to create bots that can serve multiple intentions Typically the intentions are related, so you might have a bot for your entertainment app that takes input and tries to determine if you want to listen to music, or watch a movie. Or maybe you have a dinner app with a bot that needs to determine first if you're ordering a meal, drinks, or dessert. Based on which one you want to do, the bot needs to gather specific data. So it has different questions for each path, or different intentions of the user. Once all the missing pieces are filled in, it can fulfill the request. Fulfilling the request means doing what it was designed to do once it's gathered all the data. That…

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