Build Your First Python Chatbot In 5 Minutes - "Pyter".

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In the age of AI, chatbots are getting popular day by day. It's industry’s newest tools designed to simplify the interaction between humans and computers. From E-commerce to Healthcare institutions, Everyone wants to use Chatbot for interaction with the user.

What is a Chatbot

A chatbot is a software application used to conduct an online chat conversation via text or text-to-speech, in lieu of providing direct contact with a live human agent. — According to Wikipedia.

Types of Chatbot

Chatbots can be categorized into two types

• Rules-Based
• Self Learning

The Rules-Based:- Rules-based chatbots trains a chatbot to answer question-based on pre-trained rules. these type of chatbot are good for simple queries.

Self-learning chatbot:- Self-learning chatbots are based on machine learning algorithms and they are smarter than rules-based chatbots. They can learn on their own.

How Chatbot Works

AI-powered chatbots are intelligent and can also learn on their own. They use Natural language processing and machine learning algorithm to learn and feed on data.

E.g: Google Assistant, Alexa, Siri

Intelligent AI- chatbot feed on user data and learn and try to improve themselves. They analyze it with complex AI- Algorithms and output response as text or voice.
Since these bots can learn from behaviour and experiences, they can respond to a wide range of queries and commands.

Today, we will create python chatbot using ChatterBot library. Let's get started!

1. Create Virtual Environment

pipenv is a python library to create virtual environment easily.

pip install pipenv
pipenv install

2. Install Libraries

We Will Use ChatterBot library to create Simple Python Chatbot. Install chatterbot and chatterbot_corpus with the help of pip command.

pipenv install chatterbot
pipenv install chatterbot_corpus

3. Create and Train the Chatbot

from chatterbot import ChatBot
from chatterbot.trainers import ChatterBotCorpusTrainer

BOTNAME = "Pyter"

def start():
    bot = ChatBot(BOTNAME,
        logic_adapters=[
        {
            'import_path': 'chatterbot.logic.BestMatch',
            'default_response': 'I am sorry, but I do not understand.',
            'maximum_similarity_threshold': 0.90,
        },        
    ],
        preprocessors = [
            "chatterbot.preprocessors.clean_whitespace",
        ],
        input_adaptor="chatterbot.input.TerminalAdaptor",
        output_adaptor="chatterbot.output.TerminalAdaptor",
        database_uri='sqlite:///database.sqlite3')

    trainer = ChatterBotCorpusTrainer(bot)

    # Train based on the english corpus
    trainer.train(
        "chatterbot.corpus.english",
        "chatterbot.corpus.english.greetings",
        "chatterbot.corpus.english.conversations",
        )

    print(f"Hello I am {BOTNAME}")

    while True:
        try:
            bot_input = input("You: ")
            bot_respose = bot.get_response(bot_input)
            print(f"{BOTNAME}: {bot_respose}")

        except(KeyboardInterrupt, EOFError, SystemExit):
            break

if __name__ == "__main__":
    start()

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