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Build a Collaborative Chatbot with Google Sheets and TensorFlow

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Re: Build a Collaborative Chatbot with Google Sheets and TensorFlow

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Just a fancier CTRL+F on a FAQ page. But it's quite amazing how easy it has become to use such complicated technologies to build useful products! (To be clear, I am not trying to belittle what was done in the blog post.)

I wish a CTRL+F could be as smart as how OP implemented it with similarity search - Good chrome extension idea ?

Re: Build a Collaborative Chatbot with Google Sheets and TensorFlow

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post #4

I wonder if these simple methods can make these companies ( https://www.boost.ai/ ) which claim to build smart chatbots for enterprises obsolete.

They do. We used to sell high-end projects for 50k a few years ago, but the price is dropping fast now the same projects costs about 1-5k dollars.

Re: Build a Collaborative Chatbot with Google Sheets and TensorFlow

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Just a fancier CTRL+F on a FAQ page. But it's quite amazing how easy it has become to use such complicated technologies to build useful products! (To be clear, I am not trying to belittle what was done in the blog post.)

I wish a CTRL+F could be as smart as how OP implemented it with similarity search - Good chrome extension idea ?

The first demo of the OpenAI API is a search plugin for Chrome, but I don't think it's actually published.

https://beta.openai.com/

Re: Build a Collaborative Chatbot with Google Sheets and TensorFlow

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post #7

Not sure why you need the excel sheet. You can add all those intents in the dialog flow console itself? Cool none the less.

So that you can hand it off to a non-technical person.

Have you tried to teach anyone SQL before? A spreadsheet UI is accessible to a wider set of people.

Re: Build a Collaborative Chatbot with Google Sheets and TensorFlow

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Please no more chatbots. Use the underlying tech to build a better search engine, but please stop recreating the concept of a search engine in a “chatbot.”

Whats frustrating is chatbots have the opportunity to be better than search. You can hold on to the conversation history as context for the next command and refine a search in a way a single command can't but no one seems to bother. As you say, chatbots are just poor search interfaces.
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