1. Supercharging User Interfaces
with Rasa
Uday Tatiraju
Rasa Summit
Feb 10-12, 2021

2. About Me
- Tech Lead @ Oracle (day job)
- Vice Chair, AI Advisory Council @ CompTIA
- Editor @ InfoQ
@udaytatiraju https://tatiraju.me

3. Safe Harbor Statement
The views expressed here are my own and do not represent those of my employer or
other companies referenced in this presentation

4. Agenda
● Conversational AI
● Supercharging User Interfaces
○ Command Line Interface
○ Graphical User Interface

5. Conversational Artificial Intelligence
● Voice based: Alexa, Siri, Hey Google
● Text based: Chatbots
● Powered by Natural Language Processing

6. Conversational Artificial Intelligence
● Natural Language Processing (NLP)
○ Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
○ Natural Language Generation (NLG)
● Language Models like BERT, GPT 2, GPT 3

7. Supercharging User Interfaces
● a.k.a. Instructional dialog interfaces
● Conversational AI at the core

8. Command Line Interface
● Gathers input and executes a command
● Small is beautiful - Unix philosophy
● Strict syntax
● Somewhat conversational in nature
● Help manual

9. Supercharging Command Line Interface
● Conversational design at its core
● Allow natural text
● Guided dialogs
● Corrections & Suggestions
Supercharged “find” CLI examples:
- find all json files under sandbox created after june 10th
- find files under source folder that contain “NLP”

10. Supercharging Command Line Interface
● YAML to define CLI
● Rasa for NLP & Dialogs
● REST APIs
● CLI in language of choice

11. Rasa for Conversational AI
● Machine Learning based platform
● Automates text and voice based AI assistants
● NLP for intents and entities
● Dialog management for conversations

12. Redesign “kubectl” CLI
● kubectl is a powerful tool to administer & manage k8s cluster
● Multiple commands and subcommands
● Multiple options and flags

13. Redesign “kubectl” CLI
CLI Spec

14. Redesign “kubectl” CLI
Intents & Entities

15. Redesign “kubectl” CLI
Intents & Entities
Training Data

16. Redesign “kubectl” CLI
Conversations
Training Data

17. Redesign “kubectl” CLI
● Implement the CLI
● Language of choice like Java, Python, or Rust
● Invoke Rasa REST API if normal processing fails

18. Supercharged “kubectl” demo

19. Supercharging Graphical User Interface
● Conversational design at its core
● Allow natural text
● UI state changes based on conversations

20. Supercharging Graphical User Interface

21. Supercharging Graphical User Interface

22. Recap
● Conversational Artificial Intelligence
● Supercharged User Interface
● Demo
@udaytatiraju https://tatiraju.me