How I Used Deep Learning To Train A Chatbot To Talk Like Me (Sorta)

Chatbots are "computer programs which conduct conversation through auditory or textual methods". Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, Google Assistant, and Amazon's Alexa are four of the most popular conversational agents today. They can help you get directions, check the scores of sports games, call people in your address book, and can accidently make you order a $170 dollhouse. These products all have auditory interfaces where the agent converses with you through audio messages. In this post, we'll be looking more at chatbots that operate solely on the textual front.