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MAR 2018 The latest AI news brought to you Welcome to the IBM developerWorks Cognitive computing newsletter where we gather up the latest and greatest content and resources to bring them right to your inbox. Contact us if you have any suggestions. We'd love to hear from you. If you like the newsletter, forward it to a friend or two. You probably heard about the merge of IBM Bluemix with IBM Cloud. So what does that actually mean for you if you were using Bluemix services? Don't worry, all the Bluemix products, services, and support will continue to be offered. In addition, the public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud have been unified under one brand. If you are an existing Bluemix customer, the full catalog of services continues to be available to you as-is. Want more information? Find out more in Bluemix is now IBM Cloud: Build confidently with 170+ services. Want more good news? With an IBM Cloud Lite account, you can get hands on with the cloud, using Watson, Kubernetes, Data/analytics services, and more for free. You can take as much time as you need familiarizing yourself with IBM Cloud, without having to submit your credit card. Through an IBM Cloud Lite account, you can focus on developing new solutions, not managing billing. Until next month, Jill Amaya - Content Initiative Manager, IBM developerWorks Cognitive computing Spotlights Getting started with artificial intelligence: A practical guide to building applications in the enterprise Take a look at the practical aspects of implementing AI in the enterprise. While the title of the book states a focus on building enterprise applications, the majority of the content also applies to startups - really any developer looking to get started with AI could benefit from reading this book. Create a model and a REST endpoint to let your app detect, locate, and count items in an image This code pattern demonstrates how to use PowerAI Vision Object Detection to detect and label objects within an image. Building chatbots in the IBM Cloud - Part 1 Develop your chatbot skills. This video shows you how to get started by creating a Royal Valet chatbot for his majesty Pharaoh Rameses II of ancient Egypt. You'll learn the basics and see how to test your chatbot as you develop it. Best of all, you'll get a pointer to a complete, robust chatbot that illustrates several advanced techniques. Create a custom visual recognition classifier with Apache Cordova, Node.js, and Watson Visual Recognition Create a mobile application that takes a picture of vehicle damage and sends it to the insurance company to identify and classify the problem, for example, a flat tire, a broken window, or a dent. You don't need to be a programmer to create chatbots The good news is that you don't need to be a PhD computer scientist to create chatbots. In fact, you don't even need to be a programmer. Get access to more than 100 new code patterns IBM has released more than 100 IBM Code Patterns, developer packages comprised of code, documentation, and resources for AI, Data, and Cloud developers. Build a Chatbot with IBM Watson APIs Build a chatbot with Node.js and the Conversation and Discovery services from Watson. You'll also learn how to set up your bot on the IBM Cloud Platform. Bot Asset Exchange Learn more about the Bot Asset Exchange (BAE), which takes a community-driven approach to AI chatbot development. This new exchange enables developers to easily discover, configure, deploy, and be rewarded for bots built with Watson Conversation Service. Topcoder Cognitive Community Develop the cognitive technology skills you need. 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