Conversational Assistant Control of a Graphical User Interface

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• using a first computer, generating and transmitting to a second computer one or more first output instructions which, when processed using the second computer, cause communicating one or more machine-generated messages of a conversational assistant;
• using the first computer, receiving input from the second computer comprising one or more comments in a human natural language;
• in response to receiving the input, translating, by a natural-language model of a conversational assistant system, the input into a corresponding intent and retrieving a context of the corresponding intent;
• using the first computer, processing the one or more comments of the input to determine a task responsive to the one or more comments, and based on the task, generating and transmitting to the second computer one or more second output instructions which, when processed using the second computer cause updating at least one graphical user interface (GUI) element in a first window of the second computer, wherein the conversational assistant is programmed to control a presentation of a first window and at least one other GUI element, wherein the updating the at least one other GUI element comprises presenting a successive GUI element in a same form of display or a different form of display as the at least one other GUI element and causing the at least one other GUI element to disappear;
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• repeating the generating, transmitting, receiving, processing, and updating steps to control the first window and the at least one other GUI element.

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• using a first computer, generating and transmitting to a second computer one or more first presentation instructions which, when rendered using the second computer, cause displaying one or more machine-generated messages of a conversational assistant in a first window of a graphical user interface (GUI) of the second computer, and cause displaying at least one other GUI element in the GUI, the conversational assistant being programmed to control a presentation of the first window and then at least one other GUI element;
• using the first computer, receiving, via the first window, input from the second computer in a human natural language;
• in response to receiving the input, translating, by a natural-language model of a conversational assistant system, the input into a corresponding intent and retrieving a context of the corresponding intent;
• retrieving data to generate natural language output comprising one or more strategy recommendations;
• using the first computer, generating and transmitting to the second computer one or more second presentation instructions which, when rendered using the second computer cause updating one or more of the first window and the at least one other GUI element to present the one or more strategy recommendations in a same form of display or a different form of display as the at least one other GUI element and causing the at least one other GUI element to disappear.