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Getting Started with Pandorabots
Learn how to create content for your pandorabot with the references below. For first time botmasters we recommend you study the documentation and videos in this order:
- Be Your Own Botmaster (book)
- Pandorabots: Create an Account and Create a Bot (video)
- Create a Bot With No Initial Content (3 part video)
- Questions? Visit Pandorabots forum (forum.pandorabots.com) and join the community or contact info@pandorabots.com.
A more complete list of references follows below:
Pandorabots Documents
- A Tutorial for adding knowledge to your robot by Doubly Aimless & Seiji Umatani – A document describing AIML programming.
- Watch Pandorabots AIML Tutorials on Youtube (see the Pandorabots Training Videos below).
- Be Your Own Botmaster by Dr. Richard S. Wallace - The Step-by-Step Guide to Creating, Hosting, and Selling your own A. I. Chat Bot on Pandorabots (including sample section - Pandorabots Embrace & Extend).
- The Slashdot Interview by Dr. Richard S Wallace – a portion of the interview done of Dr. Wallace for Slashdot. In this portion of the interview Dr. Wallace describes programming a bot in AIML.
- Chatterbots go Native - Considerations for an eco-system fostering the development of artificial life forms in a human world. View the slides.
- Pandorabots – A Common Lisp-based Software Robot Hosting System (Presentation given in Japan, May 2003).
- Pandorabots FAQ.
- More AIML documentation is available at http://www.alicebot.org/documentation/
Pandorabots Community Support
- ALICE and AIML Forum - General questions and answers about AIML the language and creating bot content.
- Pandorabots Forum - Specific questions and answers about Pandorabots.
Pandorabots Training Videos
Pandorabots has updated its collection of training videos. Here is an outline of the videos available today. If you are new to Pandorabots, you may want to consider going through the list in order. Experienced botmasters may find more advanced topics further down the outline.Introduction to Pandorabots
Bot Content
- No Initial Content Part 1 of 3
- AIML Targeting: Supervised Learning for Bots
- Editing Bot Content with a Spreadsheet Editor
- Creating AIML Content with ReversedAIML
Predicates and Properties
Custom HTML
Demos and Origins
- Fake Kirk Interview
- Two Bots Talking: Fake Kirk and A.L.I.C.E. [there are 7 videos of Two Bots Talking demos]
- Origins of ALICE and AIML: From Turing to the Web
Favorites
In addition to our own videos, Pandorabots Youtube aimlinstructor channel includes links to some great fan videos and demos. Here is a sample:- A.L.I.C.E. - Interview with an A.I.
- A.I. Driven Newscast
- Chatbots explained
- Dave the Bot is Dying - Can you help?
- Nurse education in second life at Glasgow Caledonian University