Office 365, the Microsoft Bot Framework, & Cognitive Services: 50,000 Foot View

Building a bot is not overly complicated but building a bot is a little underwhelming if that's all you do with it.  Integrating artificial intelligence, to me, feels like a must because it provides that next level of interaction that makes it worth while.  AI is what will make your bot feel like you're not interacting with a bot... at least until it tells you that it doesn't understand what you're asking when you say "hello", but we just need to account for those things.