How to build a multilingual chatbot for billions of users

GUEST: The chatbot marketplace is growing fast.
As Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, said at Microsoft’s World Partner Conference earlier this month, “Pretty much everyone today who’s building applications … will build bots as the new interface.”
Over the past year, we’ve seen a proliferation of bots, from news apps to scheduling assistants to integrations on top of Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp. It’s clear bots are here to stay.
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