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Effective Conversational AI: Chatbots That Work

Effective Conversational AI: Chatbots That Work

Freed, Andrew
Rozsa, Eniko
Jacobs, Cari

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ISBN10: 1633436403
ISBN13: 9781633436404
Publisher: Manning Publications
Published: May 27 2025
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Create and improve conversational AI with the latest patterns, best practices, and tools, including generative AI models.

Conversational AI (CAI) tools are built to solve problems, but all-too-often they just end up causing pain for users-and developers! Effective Conversational AI reveals best practices and industry-tested techniques for creating chatbots and conversational AI tools that are reliable at an enterprise scale. With the tested ideas and examples in this book, you'll learn to build chatbots that your customers and colleagues will actually want to use!

In Effective Conversational AI you'll learn how to:

  • Create high-quality chatbots and other conversational AI experiences
  • Plan for continuous improvement
  • Incorporate generative AI solutions to improve quality, accuracy, and usability
  • Evaluate user experience and business results
Effective Conversational AI introduces continuous improvement practices that are vital for the constant betterment and evolution of chatbots and CAI tools. It introduces the three most-common forms of chatbot--Q&A, process-oriented, and routing agents--and presents a reliable framework for continuously improving each one. Using modern generative AI and tried-and-tested classic approaches, you'll learn to deliver high performance chatbots that can guide a customer through complex end-to-end tasks--no human required!

Foreword by Jesús Mantas.

About the technology

Powerful new chatbot frameworks and Generative AI models can practically eliminate problems like misinterpreting user intent and delivering nonsensical answers. In this book, you'll learn how to build chatbots that take advantage of large language models and other modern tools and create conversational AI experiences users will love.

About the book

Effective Conversational AI teaches you how to build great chatbots that perform reliably even at enterprise scale. In it, you'll learn how to clarify user intent using LLMs, respond accurately to unanticipated input, and use Retrieval Augmented Generation to keep responses up to date. Along the way, you'll discover how to establish a feedback loop for continuous quality improvement and master techniques to integrate GenAI safely into conventional chatbot designs.

What's inside

  • Blend Generative AI and conventional chatbot tools
  • Use LLMs to improve quality, accuracy, and usability
  • Plan for continuous improvement
  • Domain-specific responses using RAG
About the reader

For developers, engineers, and product managers working with conversational AI.

About the author

Andrew Freed, Cari Jacobs, and Eniko Rózsa are seasoned conversational AI developers with IBM.

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