Hands-On AI: Building Your First Conversational AI Chatbot
With Zhongyu Pan
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Duration: 1h 48m
Skill level: Beginner
Released: 7/21/2025
Course details
Description
What is this course about?
Conversational AI now makes it easier than ever to design, customize, and manage your own chatbot. In this course, get up and running with building, developing, and fine-tuning your first conversational chatbot using Hugging Face Transformers and PyTorch. Instructor Zhongyu Pan covers the essentials of creating a baseline AI-powered chatbot and improving it with fine-tuning on real-world dialogue datasets. Along the way, explore key concepts such as tokenization, model training, and evaluation techniques. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped with highly marketable, in-demand skills to create a fully functional chatbot for real-world businesses.Instructor
Who teaches this course?
Zhongyu Pan is a GenAI Specialist at Innodata. Zhongyu uses software engineering to make music and languages more down-to-earth and approachable.Objectives
What will I be able to do by the end of this course?
- Build a baseline chatbot using Hugging Face Transformers and PyTorch.
- Fine-tune a pretrained AI model with custom datasets to improve chatbot responses.
- Deploy the chatbot as a web application using Gradio and Hugging Face Spaces.
- Evaluate chatbot performance by comparing baseline and fine-tuned models.
- Upgrade the chatbot with additional approaches.
Audience
Who is this course for?
- Aspiring AI engineers, data scientists, students, and software engineers
- Anyone who is curious about building chatbots
- Entrepreneurs, start-ups, and influencers
- Anyone who needs a chatbot for a business
Prerequisites
What do I need to know before taking this course?
- You need to have a Google account to access Google Colab.
Skills you’ll gain
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Meet the instructor
Learner reviews
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Sophie K.
Sophie K.
CMO | Asia Pacific | Banking & Insurance | Brand, Digital & Al-Led Transformation | Growth Leadership | VC Advisor
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Saurabh Kumar
Saurabh Kumar
Strategic Program & Project Leader | Champion in Customer Success, Delivery Excellence, and Cross-Regional Transformation
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Contents
What’s included
- Practice while you learn 1 exercise file
- Test your knowledge 7 quizzes
- Learn on the go Access on tablet and phone
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