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Let's review in detail what we will build in this course. We will build the services backend in the IBM Cloud platform, and we'll connect to it from a Node.js app.
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I'd like to show you, in more detail,
what we are going to build in this course.
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For starters, we are going to build this
in IBM's cloud platform, called Bluemix.
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Bluemix enables developers to
rapidly build, deploy, and
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manage cloud applications.
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And easily tap into IBM's services,
like the Watson APIs.
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This means you don't need
to set up a server or
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anything special to run this chat bot.
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We set it up in Bluemix and
then you can use it immediately.
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Take a moment and
create a new free account for your app.
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Search for Bluemix or use the link
in the teacher's notes to come to
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this page and then follow the simple
prompts to create an account.
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Now, I will log into my account to show
you some fully functional examples
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of apps built with Watson.
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As you can see from this screen,
I have already logged into my Bluemix.
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I want to bring your
attention to the Catalog tab.
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That's exactly where
this page is landed at.
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And if you notice, there are a lot of
services on our platform as a service.
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And not just Watson services.
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Blockchain, DevOps, Finance, and so forth.
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I want to bring your attention to
the Watson services down here.
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Currently, we have 12 services.
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We would be working closely with
the Conversation service and
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the Discovery service.
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Interesting to note that some of
these other services are also built
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within the Conversation and
the Discovery service.
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For example,
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the Natural Language Classifier service
is built inside the Conversation service.
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The Natural Language Understanding and
the Retrieve and
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Rank services are built
within the Discovery service.
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Now, let me bring your attention to one
of my favorite places, and yours will be
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robust with applications before long,
and that Is the Dashboard field.
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As you can see I happen to
have 9 applications built and
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the 16 services that cater to those
applications that I have running above.
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And this will be very much the same
scenario that you would have.
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I want to bring your attention to
a number of interesting services.
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Let's start with my car conversation.
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If you recall, this is very much
the cognitive dashboard in your car
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where you speak with the machine and
you issue commands.
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You don't press any buttons.
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You just tell turn on the wipers and
turn on the lights and so forth.
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Let's try that.
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Notice one of the very first things
that took place is that my browser
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asked to share my location.
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This is something that you will
discover in your exercises.
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And you will make your browser also
Geo location aware, because at some
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point we're going to ask how is
the weather while we are driving the car.
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And so the browser takes a look at
your actual location where you are and
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it would return back the exact true
weather live at that very location.
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So I'm going to click share location.
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Very well, it begins with, Hi,
it looks like a nice drive today.
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What would you like to do?
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I'll perhaps ask the question.
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I'd like you to note that I
have mistyped turn on wipers.
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But Watson understands
the semantics behind my syntactic.
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It knows that I want
to turn on the wipers.
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This actually is the power of
the Natural Language Classifier
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built within the Conversation system.
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I may ask the following question.
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It's a dialogue.
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Sure thing.
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Which genre would you prefer?
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Jazz is my favorite.
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May be I like rock.
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Now you can imagine if you
are connected to Spotify, for
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example, you could use the APIs to
actually play some music on your car.
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But we are indeed connected
to another entity, and
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that is the weather company,
the Wunderground company.
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So I'm going to ask
the following question.
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That is the exact location
that I happen to be in, and
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right now it happens to be low 70s in
Orlando where we are running this temp.
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