Most people think of chatbots and voice assistants as either dumb or super smart (if they’ve never tried one :) ). Based on working with hundreds of developers in creating assistants, Rasa believes there are multiple levels of assistants – in fact, 5 levels of AI assistants. This talk discusses challenges when trying to advance from a simple to an advanced assistant, recent advances in NLP and machine learning research, and provides hands-on advice on how to setup in-house teams.

About Alex Weidauer

Alex Weidauer is co-founder and CEO of Rasa, provider of the standard infrastructure layer for conversational AI, which supplies the tools necessary to build better, more resilient contextual assistants. With over 1.5M+ downloads since launch, Rasa Open Source is loved by developers worldwide, with a friendly, fast-growing community learning from each other and working together to make better text- and voice-based AI assistants. Alex studied Computer Science and Management, has worked for McKinsey and various tech startups before. Alex was recently on Forbes’ 30 under 30 list.