How do I go about developing my own chatbot?

How do I go about developing my own chatbot?

=> quora.com/Marcus-L-Endicott/answers

Please read through all my Quora answers above, specifically on and around this topic. I’ll try to address interesting questions under the following Quora topics:

1. Conversational Agents (Chatbots)
2. Dialog System (software)
3. Virtual Assistants (bots)