Yash Parikh | 21st September 2017, Bangalore

E- Business student @ Welingkar Institute of Management, Bangalore

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Hi, my name is Yash Parikh currently pursuing  my MBA in PGDM E- Business from Welingkar Institute of Management, Bangalore. I am proud to announce “Elysium”. It is an artificial intelligence chatbot, created by me.

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The idea of Elysium came into existence, a few weeks ago in our “Cognitive Business” lecture. I am not a programmer/ Engineer and I have never built anything like this ever before. I am always fascinated with technology and being aware of the fact that things like Artificial Intelligence , Internet of Things (IoT), Robotics and Machine Learning are the future and also the next “Billion dollar industry” where the world is heading today, it was very important for me being a technology student to keep myself updated about  it, which is why I decided to take this up as a challenge and started learning and understanding of how Elysium could be created by a non- programmer like me.

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It took me about 29 hours to create Elysium, of which 18 hours were just spent in learning about how an AI- chatbot could be made. I gained key insight about it from  internet and by watching YouTube videos in those 18 hours.

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Finally after understanding and learning, I started implementing my knowledge into some materialistic domain where I first started building the bot on IBM’s Watson platform powered by – Bluemix. However, I later shifted to some other platform due to some limitations that I was facing with IBM’s Watson during that time. After about 29 hours, Elysium was born.