Conversations for the masses

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Shows concrete stacks and wins: uses Azure Bot Service + Bot Framework emulator to build one codebase deployed to Teams/Skype/Slack/web, adds LUIS and Cognitive Services for speech/text/image, and demos a Contoso flower bot that works across channels. Cites milestones: speech WER down to ~5.9%, Messenger >1B MAU, WeChat 200M cards, and the DoNotPay bot fighting 160,000 parking tickets. Includes QnA Maker for FAQ-to-bot and notes privacy/legal incidents (police subpoenaing Echo).

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:46History of machine conversations
3. 5:45Conversational canvases
4. 12:30Digital assistants
5. 17:48Machine learning
6. 24:45Maltese Falcon
7. 25:13Bots
8. 31:55Bot Framework
9. 41:27Bot Services
10. 47:37Dialogue Design
11. 48:44The Fourth Industrial Revolution
12. 50:16QA Maker
13. 52:50Things to consider

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