<p>This week we have a special guest as Stephan Bisser, MVP for AI with a focus on Conversational AI, joins us to talk about Bots. We cover three key topics:</p>
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<li>Why/when would you use a Bot?</li>
<li>How do you get started designing then building a Bot?</li>
<li>What’s changed recently?</li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="https://bisser.io/conversational-ai-updates-from-msbuild-2020/">Stephan’s post on updates from Build</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/microsoft/adaptivecards-templates/tree/dev/private-templates-service">Adaptive Cards Management System</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/composer/introduction">Bot Framework Composer General Availability</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.luis.ai/">Updates to LUIS</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Azure-Samples/LUIS-DevOps-Template">DevOps routines for language models</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-virtual-agents/fundamentals-what-is-power-virtual-agents">What are Power Virtual Agents?</a>  </li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/microsoft/botbuilder-tools/tree/master/packages/Chatdown">Chatdown tool mentioned by Stephan</a></li>
<li><a href="https://adaptivecards.io/designer/">Adaptive Cards Designer</a></li>
<li><a href="https://adaptivecards.io/community-calls/">Adaptive Cards Community Calls</a></li>
</ul>
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