Lili Cheng, VP, AI Research at Microsoft

Cognitive Services--a collection of powerful cognitive AI APIs for vision, speech, language understanding, knowledge and search, which enables developers to easily add AI to their apps and services. Bot Framework makes it easy for developers to build and connect intelligent conversational AI to their customer experiences, and deploy these in their own custom UI as well as embedded in Skype, Microsoft Teams, Cortana, Bing as well as Facebook, Slack, etc. It's pretty clear that Cheng is a source of knowledge for all things AI and bot related so get ready to dive deep into her domain expertise in this insightful interview. Rosenthal: There are a number of bot frameworks in market, what's Microsoft's special sauce as it relates to their bot framework? What makes the Microsoft Bot framework unique? Cheng The Bot Framework is one component of Azure Bot Service, which includes the Bot Framework and BotBuilder software development kit.