Azure Bot Service
A Azure Bot Service is a Azure service to deploy and manage chatbot applications.
- Context:
- It can offer features like hosting, scaling, and managing QnA knowledgebases to enable developers to concentrate on crafting bot logic rather than handling infrastructure.
- It can seamlessly integrate with other Azure services and bring automatic deployment, versioning, monitoring, and secure connections.
- It can power bots running on Azure and may serve as a key part of enterprise-grade bot deployment and management strategy.
- It can be used across various use cases such as virtual assistants, customer service bots, productivity bots, and more.
- It can support various AI-chatbot SDKs such as Microsoft Bot Framework SDK.
- It support Azure Bot-based Apps, such as: Azure Virtual Assistant, Xbox Game Help bot, and Azure DevOps chatbot.
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- See: Microsoft Bot Framework, MS Bot SDK.
References
2023
- "Azure AI Bot Service.” In http://azure.microsoft.com
- QUOTE: Design and build enterprise-grade conversational AI bots. ...
Azure AI Bot Service provides an integrated development environment for bot building. Its integration with Power Virtual Agents, a fully hosted low-code platform, enables developers of all technical abilities build conversational AI bots—no code needed.
- QUOTE: Design and build enterprise-grade conversational AI bots. ...
2017
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-azure-bot-service-and-language-understanding-enabling-developers-to-build-better-conversational-bots/ December 13, 2017
- QUOTE: Conversational AI, or making human and computer interactions more natural, has been a goal since technology became ubiquitous in our society. Our mission is to bring conversational AI tools and capabilities to every developer and every organization on the planet, and help businesses augment human ingenuity in unique and differentiated ways.
Today, I’m excited to announce Microsoft Azure Bot Service and Microsoft Cognitive Services Language Understanding (LUIS) are both generally available.
Azure Bot Service enables developers to create conversational interfaces on multiple channels while Language Understanding (LUIS) helps developers create customized natural interactions on any platform for any type of application, including bots. Making these two services generally available on Azure simultaneously extends the capabilities of developers to build custom models that can naturally interpret the intentions of people conversing with bots.
This announcement delivers on our AI Platform approach, providing developers and data scientists with all the tools they need to create AI applications in the cloud and on mobile devices. In November, at Connect(); 2017, we released tools to infuse AI into new and existing applications quickly and easily with updates to Azure Machine Learning (AML) including Azure IoT Edge integration, as well as new Visual Studio Tools for AI. In September, at Microsoft Ignite 2017, we announced tools for the AI-driven Digital Transformation and described how the Microsoft AI platform enables a rich variety of application scenarios.
- QUOTE: Conversational AI, or making human and computer interactions more natural, has been a goal since technology became ubiquitous in our society. Our mission is to bring conversational AI tools and capabilities to every developer and every organization on the planet, and help businesses augment human ingenuity in unique and differentiated ways.