TU5.4 - Beyond Basic Bots: Building Intelligent Assistants with Google Chat and Vertex AI
Channel: Totally Unscripted
Date: 2024-02-22

Say goodbye to simple chatbots and hello to intelligent assistants and apps! In this episode of Totally Unscripted, we dive into the world of building advanced enterprise apps and assistants using interactive dialogs and Vertex AI in Google Chat. 

As part of this, we explored how you can harness the capabilities of the Google Chat platform to promote collaborative work within Chat spaces, taking advantage of Google's advanced machine learning models to create assistants that can help with complex tasks, such as summarizing conversations and generating complete task descriptions from simple titles. 

Get ready to go beyond the basics and learn how to build sophisticated assistants that help you get more work done, collaborate with your team, and revolutionize the way you work with Google Chat and Google Workspace.

Tutorials:
Respond to incidents with Google Chat, Vertex AI, and Apps Script: https://developers.google.com/chat/tutorial-incident-response
Manage projects with Google Chat, Vertex AI, and Firestore: https://developers.google.com/chat/tutorial-project-management

Code Samples:
Incident Management: https://github.com/googleworkspace/google-chat-samples/tree/main/apps-script/incident-response
Project Management: https://github.com/googleworkspace/google-chat-samples/tree/main/node/project-management-app

Video:
Incident Management (no narration): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtFZfcy94oE

Key moments:
(10:11) Incident Manager App Demonstration 
(15:16) Simplicity of Apps Script Code 
(17:57) Accessibility of Google Cloud Console 
(21:10) Simplifying Google Cloud Console Configuration 
(23:04) Transition from Apps Script to Cloud Functions 
(26:04) Best Practices for Chat App Development 
(35:03) Choosing the Right Chat App Architecture 
(41:19) Collecting Feedback and Improving Documentation 
(46:00) Conclusion and Call to Action