Hi,
Let me introduce one of my new projects: create a new Kodi Add-On based on Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive technology usage, to navigate within Kodi, execute actions, and why not be able to retrieve additional info on movies by leveraging external sources, such as Wikipedia. Let’s call it… Kodi AI Assistant Add-On.
As you probably know, Kodi is one of the famous Home entertainment system, providing customization features, and supported by one of the most active community, delivering thousands of Add-Ons.
In a future post, I will focus on Kodi itself, but at the moment I would like to introduce one of my new projects: create a new Kodi Add-On based on Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive technology usage, to navigate within Kodi, execute actions, and why not be able to retrieve additional info on movies by leveraging external sources, such as Wikipedia. Let’s call it… Kodi AI Assistant Add-On.
Mainly, I consider this project as a funny and motivating playground to speak about several technical topics, such Python development with Eclipse, usage of AI cloud services. By leveraging my professional position, it will be much more easier to start with Watson Assistant.
But, in a second stage, I will demonstrate how we can be agnostic for the Kodi plugin, by using other AI engines, such as Google AI and Amazon AI.
At this stage, the 1st steps I will document are the following ones:
- Setup a Python 2.7.x development environment, based on Eclipse
- Setup and start using Watson Assistant API, one of the leading edge AI engine available on Cloud
- Create a 1st Python script, allowing to consume Watson AI APIs
- Start working on the Kodi Plugin / Module structure
- Integrate the AI engine in the plugin
- Add end-user dialog features to the plugin
- Interact and use Kodi’s Movies Library content
- etc.