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In this chapter, we re going to build a robot. Not a sci-fi type of robot, such as that in Lost in Space, but a computer program that can hold a conversation with us. These types of programs are commonly known as bots or chatterbots. Bots are present in a lot of different software and tools these days. AOL s popular Instant Messenger software comes with two bots added as default friends on your profile. You can ask them for gift ideas and movie times. In short, it s a little like talking to a customer service agent, except the agent is entirely automated. You might be familiar with bots on your own computer. Microsoft Office comes with the Clippy bot turned on by default, and many web sites have automated chat bots in an attempt to cut down on support costs and, supposedly, to improve usability. The history of bots goes back to the 1960s, when a computer scientist at MIT named Joseph Weizenbaum developed a bot called ELIZA. It eventually became so popular that most

computer users throughout the 1980s and 1990s were exposed to it in one form or another through the many talk to your computer type programs that became popular. The conversations you can have with ELIZA-type bots aren t mind blowing, but can prove entertaining, as shown in Figure 12-1. The general mechanism ELIZA bots use is to take whatever you say and twist it around into a statement or question to you. For example, if you were to say I am bored, ELIZA might respond, How long have you been bored or Why are you bored This form of bouncing back the user s input seems crude when described in this way, but people are often fooled into believing they re talking to something more intelligent simply because of its reflective nature (this is known as the ELIZA effect).

Figure 12-1. A demonstration of a session with an online ELIZA bot Our bot won t be exactly like ELIZA that is, it won t be an ELIZA clone but will share some of the same features and use some similar techniques. We ll also look at how to extend our bot with other features.

abled for however many seconds are set as the cooldown period. To do this, first create a method that checks to see if the cooldown time has expired, as follows:

Note If you want to learn about or play with some Internet-hosted versions of ELIZA, visit http://

The good thing about developing a bot is that it can be as simple or as complex as you like. Toward the end of this chapter, we ll be looking at ways you can extend the bot, but the initial construction is quite simple.

Sets keyboard focus on the active view's Open Buffers drop-down menu. Moves the view focus down. Moves the view focus to the left. Moves the view focus to the next view in the list of open views (regardless of position on screen). Moves the view focus to the prior view in the list of open views (regardless of position on screen). Moves the view focus to the right. Moves the view focus up. Sets keyboard focus on the active view's Modes drop-down menu. Opens the mini-buffer and calls the Goto function. Opens a MG file in the basic DSL authoring configuration. Displays Intellipad help.

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private bool CheckCoolDown() { if (!isCoolDown) { return false; } else { if (DateTime.Now > pressedTime.AddSeconds(CoolDownSeconds)) { isCoolDown = false; return false; } else { return true; } } }