FPT started Chatbot Programming Competition

On 22^nd November, FPT Corporation started Chatbot Programmingg Competition to find the best automated communication applications for individuals and businesses. FPT will award VND50 million to the winning team.

In the competition, based on technological platforms such as FPT.AI, wit.ai, api.ai and texting applications - namely Facebook Messenger, Slack, Viber, Zalo, individuals/organizations/businesses will come up with ideas to develop chatbot. Candidates register at: https://fpt.ai/bot-of-the-year/. Deadline for registration and ideasubmission is the22^nd January, 2018. 20 teams with the best ideas will be given 6 months to develop their ideas with the support and consultation from FPT. “Bot of the Year” – The award event is planned to be held in August 2018 at FPT Tech Day.

Criteria are established as follows: Technology (60%), Practice (20%),Creativity (10%) and Using FPT.AI (10%).

Talking about the competition, FPT CTO Le Hong Viet affirmed: “Building and developing technology ecosystem is one of the objectives that FPT aims at”. Besides sharing technology research data and results, FPT keeps organizing technology related competitions in order to create new practical applications of technology for the sake of our community”.

In Industry 4.0, the development of artificial intelligence has madeChatbotbecome popular among not only users but also developers. Giants such as Microsoft (Cortana), Facebook (chatbot messengers) and Apple (Siri) do not exclude themselves from developing and utilizing this program. Recently, in Vietnam, multitude chatbot applications have been researched and put into service such as MyFSoft – a customer service Chatbot of FPT Shop and FPT Telecom. Nowadays, Chatbot is applied in a wide range of fields such as customer services, health care, medical report management etc.

Information about FPT.AI

Officially released at FPT Tech Day 2017, FPT.AI is an artificial intelligence technological platform for developers to build interactive interfaces through natural language. FPT.AI now supports 2 languages: English and Vietnamese.

The release of the new platform shows FPT’s leading position in researching and applying global latest technology to promote IT industry in Vietnam.

Currently, FPT.AI is applied by numerous Vietnamese and foreign corporations to do research and implement their business solutions.