Conversational AI

Managing your Azure Bot Services Costs

Managing your Azure Bot Services Costs

Helpful tips for managing your Azure Bot Services expenses

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Matt Eland
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Deploying a chatbot on Azure comes with a few costs: some obvious and others hidden. Let’s discuss what you can do to monitor and control your pricing on Azure when deploying a chatbot.
๐ŸŽต Do you want to build a Chatbot? ๐ŸŽต

๐ŸŽต Do you want to build a Chatbot? ๐ŸŽต

Exploring the history of chatbots, conversational AI on Azure, and how ChatGPT changes everything

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Matt Eland
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Chatbots have come a long way since ELIZA. Let’s see how modern chatbots stack up compared to transformers and ChatGPT - and where they will go from here.
Text Classification in C# with ML.NET 2.0

Text Classification in C# with ML.NET 2.0

Using NAS-BERT transformers to classify Text to Labels in C#

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Matt Eland
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Let’s take a look at how ML.NET 2.0’s new Text Transformer features can be used to perform multi-class classification and map utterances to intents.
Creating and deploying a Microsoft Bot Framework Bot with the SDK

Creating and deploying a Microsoft Bot Framework Bot with the SDK

Using the Bot Framework v4 SDK, C#, and Azure to Build Chatbots

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Matt Eland
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A guided tutorial to create and deploy a starter bot. We’ll walk through creating and configuring the Azure resources, creating the project in Visual Studio, testing the bot, deploying it to Azure, and hosting the bot on a web page.