How to build a Chatbot -- Part 1

As it turns out, AI is starting to truly become mainstream and 2017 looks like it's going to be full of new technologies and platforms. During the past year we've seen many new companies dealing with this, including the grand opening of Open AI (which has already shipped some pretty interesting papers), quite a few startups on the subject, a huge amount of FUD concerning self-driving cars and, of course, the rise of the mighty chatbot. Just like it happened with the popularization of countless technologies before, there's always people who buy way too much into the hype and out come the tinfoil hats. There's already talk of how AI is making humans obsolete and that we're like two days away from giant floating heads in the sky demanding we show them what we got. The reality, however, is somewhat different.