Develop your Chatbot Assistant

Objective:
To enrich students' understanding of cognitive service - chatbot. We expect students to learn how to build, test and deploy a chatbot. Also, students will learn to explore the potential of chatbot integrating into our lives anywhere and anytime.

Description:
The school will organise a series of workshops. The workshops include theoretical session and interactive session conducted in a classroom, during which students will be guided to build a chatbot. Students will also have to test the chatbot by having a real chat with the bot in natural languages, such as Cantonese, Mandarin or English. After executing the chatbot, some real life chatbot applications will be demonstrated and further introduced to the students so that they gain a better understanding of how we possibly drive benefits from chatbot and how chatbot can facilitate humans anywhere and anytime. Moderate and advanced level session may include lecture on integrating the chatbot into robotics. Students can learn about the capabilities of robots such as deep learning, performing commands or even having a two-way communication with humans.

After the workshops, the school will organise an intra-school competition for students. Students will be divided into teams and each team has 1.5 hours to propose a chatbot application in daily life. Students will have to do the presentation afterwards about how chatbot can potentially solve our daily problems, the process of building the chatbot prototype and how the limitations of chatbots can be resolved. Prizes will be awarded to teams with the most innovative idea and whose idea has the potential of greatest positive societal impacts.