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Re:Challenges you’re going to face when building a chatbot by adamra on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @10:26AM (#13309704)
That's a very good point indeed. In that particular case the diagnostic chatbot is a proof-of-concept to grab attention to the diagnosis+NLP API offered by Infermedica, and also serve as an example app.
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Re:Challenges you’re going to face when building a chatbot by petero on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @10:33AM (#13309757)
This is 100% correct. The chatbot is currently a proof-of-concept and our first take on a conversational symptom checker. Our core business is the Infermedica API and patient prescreening tools based on the diagnostic engine.
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Re:Challenges you’re going to face when building a chatbot by ec109685 on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @12:39PM (#13310984)
Wouldn't a more graphical implementation of the symptom checker, possibly with a tree the user can follow in a wizard style be more effective than a simple texted based chat?
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Re:Challenges you’re going to face when building a chatbot by petero on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @01:17PM (#13311420)
Could be. But you need a chatbot to compare the performance. :)
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