Nine tools to help you build your own chatbot

【51CTO.com Quick Translation】Today, artificial intelligence technology has found its way into countless fields and has become the core driving force in a new wave of technology. From artificial robots to modern node robots, artificial intelligence represents the future direction of technological development. Chatbots are one of the important innovations based on artificial intelligence.

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Currently, many mainstream messaging applications have been rapidly popularized in enterprises, and chatbots can complete customer service delivery to users according to a series of pre-programmed dialogues and self-improvement tasks. Based on the received replies and previously stored information, chatbots can operate and solve problems in this predetermined way.

In fact, chatbots have performed well in areas such as customer service, e-commerce, and marketing. Their programming mechanism is similar to humans in thinking and behavior, and can independently perform a range of tasks. In today's article, we will introduce nine popular platforms to help you successfully build your own chatbot.

1. Messenger Platform

Facebook Messenger Platform is a major force in chatbot development. It offers a variety of tools for creating chatbots and instant messaging tools. The platform uses the Wit.ai tool to integrate conversational interfaces and robots into applications. It also provides built-in templates and plug-ins that can integrate text messages, photos, slogans, and other content into messages, and deliver this information through emails and websites. Facebook Messenger Platform is also backed by a rich ecosystem of development tools and resources, including the JavaScript SDK console, Ads Manager, Analytics tool for App, and more.

2. Chatfuel

Chatfuel is one of the most popular tools for creating chatbots for Facebook Messenger. It has powerful artificial intelligence capabilities and can build chatbots without any programming knowledge. Chatfuel currently serves more than 7 million users worldwide, and its customers include Uber, National Geographic, and Tech Crunch. Chatfuel has created more than 230,000 chatbots for various industries, including sports, healthcare, publishing, and e-commerce.

3. Smooch

Smooch is another great chatbot building and integration tool. It supports multiple platforms including Android and iOS, and offers options such as in-app, real-time web, and rich messaging services. Smooch is integrated with Stripe, which can attract online customers, provide a good online shopping experience, accept payments, and easily fulfill orders. The platform is included in multiple applications such as Twilio, WeChat, Shopify, and Telegram. Smooch can also integrate with Facebook Messenger using multiple other methods (including images, GIFs and Emojis, and buttons). In addition, it can also sync with business tools such as Front, Slack, Hipchat, and Zendesk.

4. Botsify

Botsify is also specifically targeted at Facebook Messenger. Botsify provides a simple and easy-to-use interface to build chatbots without writing code. The platform also provides the Facebook Messenger API, allowing developers to configure personalized replies, schedule messages, integrate with WordPress and Medium, and extract data from various data analysis tools. In addition, Botsify supports a variety of rich media content, including videos, images, and audio files.

5. Beep Boop

Beep Boop is a modern platform for building and hosting chatbots for Facebook Messenger and Slack. The chatbot source code is hosted on GitHub, and since the bot itself runs in a Docker container, it can be written in any programming language such as Ruby, Python, Go, and JavaScript. Bepp Boop provides many excellent features, including build notifications, hosting public bots, and support for automatic upgrades and GitHub continuous integration.

6. Pandorabots

Pandorabots is a web-based suite of tools and services that helps developers build and host their own chatbots. The suite includes an IDE for building chatbots, called "The Pandorabots Playground". It also provides a tool called AIaaS (Artificial Intelligence as a Service), which is a RESTful API for accessing robot hosting platforms and integrating robots into web and mobile applications. Currently, Pandorabots' online community has more than 225,000 developer members, and more than 285,000 chatbots have been created using it so far.

7. Microsoft Bot Framework

Microsoft offers more advanced conversation creation and attachment options in its own robot development platform. Microsoft Bot Framework can be used to create Skype, Facebook Messenger text messages, Slack, Office 365, email, etc. It provides robot building tools for Node.js and .NET platforms. Developers can also visit its Bot Catalog, use pre-set robot templates, and experience a large number of unique robot solutions - including constellation robots, blackjack robots, travel assistants, etc.

8. Motion AI

Motion AI provides a powerful platform that helps enterprise customers build and deploy chatbots for a range of media, including Facebook Messenger, Slack, email, web, and SMS. Motion AI offers a free version and a variety of solution options for large enterprises. In addition, its complete documentation makes robot building easier. Motion AI will also soon launch a Bot Store where developers can share their chatbot achievements and develop more robots in a collaborative way.

9. Dexter

Dexter is an excellent platform for many mainstream messaging platforms that provide open APIs, including Viber, Telegram, Slack, Facebook Messenger, Kik, etc. Dexter provides more than 250 analysis, deployment and other enterprise-level solution integration options. It also has good documentation and technical support services to help you quickly complete SDK installation, custom robot creation, and service distribution.

Summarize:

Chatbots have become a unique way to interact with users, providing weather updates, online shopping assistance, push notifications, customer service, etc. Their popularity is growing rapidly, and I believe we will soon see more and more interesting intelligent chatbots.

Original title: 9 Tools To Create Your Own Chatbots

Original author: Sabeer Shaikh

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