Augmenting the Alice chatbot

ALICE is the original chatbot created with AIML. We can load it and then define additional rules on top of it.

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As we saw in a previous example, Alice can be learned by using the appropriate magic:



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%learn alice









    




Learning database: 'alice'






    



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Testing Alice

Let's do some chit-chat



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Hello









    




Hi there!



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I'm fine









    




Glad to hear it. What's new?



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What's your preferred holiday spot?









    




Are you asking about my preferred holiday spot ?



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Yes









    




I don't want to talk about that now.

Adding categories to a loaded bot

It seems our poor Alice bot has never gone on holiday. Let's put some holiday hobbies into it. But before that, let's activate AIML recording



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%record on









    




Record activated

Now we define a couple of categories about holiday preferences



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%aiml

what is your preferred holiday *?
<srai>holiday</srai>

holiday
summer or winter?

summer
<that>summer or winter
<random>
<li>I like to go to the beach</li>
<li>I enjoy sailing</li>
</random>

winter
<that>summer or winter
I'm rather fond of cross-country skiing









    




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Testing

Ok, now it should know about holidays. Let's ask again



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What's your preferred holiday spot?









    




summer or winter?



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summer









    




I enjoy sailing

Saving

It seems to work. We can now save the defined categories into the AIML file holidays.aiml so that it can be added to a future DB.

(Of course we can also save the current full brain state, storing the loaded Alice bot + added categories into a single compiled state, also for future use)



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%record save holidays









    




Record saved to "holidays.aiml" (1 cells)

Version: 1.0 (2016-07-19)
Author: Paulo Villegas