Media Design

Assignment: Design a Chatbot

Chatbot Assignment

Today’s lesson: Markov Chain

Viewing & Reading:

• The Markov Chain: Interactive & Visually explained
• Khan Academy video (in a series about Information Theory)
• Writing your own Markov Chain machine in python
• markovify: a simple python module

Coding:

• Markov Chain experiments in the Chatbots Repo.

Previous lesson: Chatbots in python

Today we’ll learn about the chatbot in this window next to this. This system consists of multiple parts:

• chatbox website server. Repo: artezgda.github.io
• chat engine server. Repo: heroku-chatbot (Hosted on Heroku)
• chat bot itself. Code for the bots: Chatbots Repo (Fork this repo and propose pull requests)

Some more links to online lessons and tutorials:

• Learn Python the hard way: Lesson on Asking questions
• How to get started on Heroku: tutorial
• How to build a chat engine on Heroku: tutorial

Previous Homework

• Lesson: Terminal

• Terminal Homework

• Formulate your concept. Give a couple of sentences of an possible conversation scenario.
• Install zsh, dotfiles and alt key: follow zsh dotfiles repo’s guide

Listen to these two podcasts:

• Radio Lab - Talking to Machines
• Good Point (Rafaël Rozendaal & Jeremy Bailey) - AI