Andrew Freed

Andrew R. Freed is a Distinguished Engineer with over 20 years of experience, the latter half in AI. He joined IBM’s Watson division shortly after Watson defeated past champions in Jeopardy! and has delivered many AI-based solutions since. Andrew has learned from a wide variety of technical books and blogs and is passionate about “paying it forward” by sharing his hard-won knowledge. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his family.

books by Andrew Freed

Effective Conversational AI

  • April 2025
  • ISBN 9781633436404
  • 328 pages
  • printed in black & white

Effective Conversational AI teaches you how to build great chatbots that perform reliably even at enterprise scale. In it, you’ll learn how to clarify user intent using LLMs, respond accurately to unanticipated input, and use Retrieval Augmented Generation to keep responses up to date. Along the way, you’ll discover how to establish a feedback loop for continuous quality improvement and master techniques to integrate GenAI safely into conventional chatbot designs.

Conversational AI

  • September 2021
  • ISBN 9781617298837
  • 320 pages
  • printed in black & white

Conversational AI is a guide to creating AI-driven voice and text agents for customer support and other conversational tasks. This practical and entertaining book combines design theory with techniques for building and training AI systems. In it, you’ll learn how to find training data, assess performance, and write dialog that sounds human. You’ll go from building simple chatbots to designing the voice assistant for a complete call center.