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Overview
Quick Tour of:
History of Chatterbots
Introduction to Basic Technology
Applications Gallery
Pandorabots internals
Pandorabots software components

History
ALICE: An Effort to put updated version of Eliza
Eliza, the famous therapist bot developed by Joseph Weizenbaum in 1966

ALICE
ALICE chatbot
A.L.I.C.E.
(Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity)
AIML
(Aritificial Intelligence Markup Language by A.I Foundation)
Zipf's Law
(frequent words and sentences)
Loebner Prize Winner

Turing Test
From Wikipedia :
The Turing test is a proposal for a test of a machine's ability to demonstrate intelligence. It proceeds as follows: a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which tries to appear human. All participants are placed in isolated locations. If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test.
2009 Loebner Contest

A.I. Foundation
– A.L.I.C.E. Artificial Intelligence Foundation
– Non-Profit Research Organization
– AIML Description: http://www.alicebot.org/aiml.html
– http://www.alicebot.org
– AIML is the open-standard for Chatbot programming

AIML
XML format
<category>
<patten>user input</pattern>
<template>bot response</template>
</category>

Fake Captain Kirk
Fake Caption Kirk Bot
Developed by SpellBinder
Fake Captain Kirk on Pandorabots

Second Life Bot
Objects in Second Life Virtual World can be a chatbot

Flash Bot
Tom Riddle's Diary from the Movie Harry
Potter
( 1 : 0 1 / 1 : 4 4 )
Tom Riddle's Diary at Pandorabots

Game www.SmallWorlds.com

Instant Messenger
Jabber(XMPP) bot

Web Navigator
Web Visitor can talk to a Chatbot or an
Operator

Blogging
Embedding in the Blog system ( Tumblr.com
example)

MicroBlog
Twitter, Jaiku, StatusNet, etc....

Web Site Interface www.Mckinney.com

Mitsuku
More Pandorabots

iGod
More Pandorabots

More Pandorabots
ESL Robots

More Pandorabots
Echelon...

Lauren
More Pandorabots

ALICE
... and ALICE

Pandorabots Web
Web service for Free www.pandorabots.com
926,742,581 pandorabot responses served
137,847 Botmasters
169,892 Bots developed and written in Common Lisp

Zipfs Law
( h t t p : / / e n . w i k i p e d i a . o r g / w i k i / Z i p f % 2 7 s
From Wikipedia
) given some corpus of natural language utterances, the frequency of any word is frequency table

Graph Representation
AIML categories are stored in Graph

Brain of ALICE
Basic Knowledge of ALICE (25,000 categories)

Botmaster Control
Pandorabot Creation how to create a pandorabot thru botmaster control

Botmaster Control
Other tutorials:

Pandorabots Components
– A Conversational Engine
– A Web-based Interaction Interface enabling users to interact with pandorabots
– A Programming Interface supporting knowledge development for pandorabots
– Systems supporting automatic knowledge generation for Pandorabots

The Conversational Engine
The Conversational Engine Component is an open-standard AIML engine implemented in
Lisp.
In contrast to other open-standard AIML engine implementations, we developed a patented algorithm
(independent of the programming -language implementation) allowing for very efficient processing of simultaneous multiuser conversations between many pandorabots.

The Web-based Interaction
Through the Web-based Interaction Interface
Component, the Conversational Engine supports conversational interactions between a variety of front-end programs (e.g. Flash,
Jabber, irc, etc) and other web services (e.g.
SecondLife).
Standard Internet Protocols (http/xmpp, etc) chat through browsers an XML-RPC Application programming Interface
Flexible to add new service

The Programming Interface
AIML programming code is used to create
Conversational Knowledge. Programming
Interface provides a software development environment facilitating AIML code development by non-programmers, in addition to supporting rapid development and modification of knowledge.
Browser-based AIML programming environment
Knowledge editing system based on existing conversation logs

Pandorabots Knowledge
Conversational knowledge can be automatically generated from conversational transcripts.
This technology component in the programming of Pandorabots Knowledge, enabling automatic/semi-automatic generation of conversational knowledge from dialogues to generate specific character types.
PandoraWriter
SpellBinder (US Patent Pending)

Evolution of Learning for AIML
Supervised - Requires Teacher
1. Train for Dialog
2. Targeting
3. Superbot a. Safe AIML Reductions b. Wild + Atomic categories

Evolution of Learning for AIML
Unsupervised - No Teacher
1. Pandora Writer
2. <learn>/<eval>
3. Reversed AIML Reversed AIML demo
4. SpellBinder

Tweets on Pandorabots
What people say about pandorabots...

Thank You
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