Merge branch 'master' into update-discovery-credentials

Author: dpopp07

README.md

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 ### Assistant v2
 
+> Watson Assistant v2 API is released in beta. For details, see the ["Introducing Watson Assistant"](https://www.ibm.com/blogs/watson/2018/03/the-future-of-watson-conversation-watson-assistant/) blog post.
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 Use the [Assistant][conversation] service to determine the intent of a message.
 
 Note: You must first create a workspace via IBM Cloud. See [the documentation](https://console.bluemix.net/docs/services/conversation/index.html#about) for details.