Integrating Discovery and Assistant

See [[Creating a Watson Chatbot with Discovery]] and [[How to build a Chatbot with Watson Assistant]].

Also See the [[Main AI Page]]

Discovery Checklist

• Go to your Dashboard
• Go to Add a new Watson Service
• Search for or select "Discovery"
• Select your plan (Lite in this case)
• Select your region (Sydney does not yet integrate with Serverless as of 2020-11-09)

The use of intents and entities in a bot's construction makes for a simple way of implementing a bot, but the construction doesn't scale. There is a long tail of uncommon, unique, or unexpected intents and entities that chatbot might face when talking to a user.

This is where Discovery comes in.

Discovery can use existing enterprise knowledge to cover long-tail queries.

Procedure

The Steps to adding Discovery to assistant as an API are quite tricky and need to be followed perfectly despite the documentation being slightly out-of-date.

Skills

The dialogue skill The search skill

Lite can't use it, but can invoke Discovery using an API call.