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Published inJan 2020
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Maxim Lapan
Maxim Lapan
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Maxim Lapan

Maxim has been working as a software developer for more than 20 years and was involved in various areas: distributed scientific computing, distributed systems and big data processing. Since 2014 he is actively using machine and deep learning to solve practical industrial tasks, such as NLP problems, RL for web crawling and web pages analysis. He has been living in Germany with his family.
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An overview of chatbots

A trending topic in recent years has been AI-driven chatbots. There are various opinions on the subject, ranging from chatbots being completely useless to being an absolutely brilliant idea, but one thing is hard to question: chatbots open up new ways for people to communicate with computers that are much more human-like and natural than the old-style interfaces that we are all used to.

At its core, a chatbot is a computer program that uses natural language to communicate with other parties (humans or other computer programs) in a form of dialogue.

Such scenarios can take many different forms, such as one chatbot talking to a user, many chatbots talking to each other, and so on. For example, there might be a technical support chatbot that can answer free-text questions from users. However, usually chatbots share common properties of a dialogue interaction (the user asks a question, but the chatbot can ask clarifying questions to get the missing information...

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Maxim Lapan

Maxim has been working as a software developer for more than 20 years and was involved in various areas: distributed scientific computing, distributed systems and big data processing. Since 2014 he is actively using machine and deep learning to solve practical industrial tasks, such as NLP problems, RL for web crawling and web pages analysis. He has been living in Germany with his family.
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