Whither AIMLBot 3.0?
7 March 2008
The short answer: There isn’t going to be an AIMLBot 3.0.
However, for the last few months I have been working hard on a new project that I’m currently calling Botkit (this name will probably change).
Botkit grew out of what was to be AIMLBot 3.0.
Put simply, I’ve raised the level of abstraction: Botkit is a framework for creating conversational agents in lots of different ways – in much the same way that ASP.NET can be used to create lots of different types of web-application.
To demonstrate this I’ll be releasing a “reference” AIML bot (what was AIMLBot 3.0) as well as a few other types of conversational agent to show what Botkit it is capable of.
Its still early days yet but I’m making lots of progress and working hard on my trusty laptop during my daily commute to London.
What I can reveal is that:
- It is written for the .NET/Mono platform.
- The core library will be dual licensed under the GNU Affero GPL and a commercial license.
- A free-to-use but closed source single user Windows/XAML based smart-client will be released so people can play with the core library and build their own agents. (There will be similar application written for Mono.)
- There already is extensive developer documentation and reference material.
- A closed-source commercial multi-user server version will be available to allow customers to deploy conversational agents to websites, IRC, IM and mobile devices.
I’ll post more details soon.
4 Responses to "Whither AIMLBot 3.0?"
2008-03-08 02:52
Sounds good!
It seems things have stalled in the world of A.I. ChatBots – maybe this is a sign that the field isn’t dead after all.
Waiting patiently
2009-09-02 15:22
Your advice needed. I am using aimlbot 2.5 GUI and have no problems with the software that I am aware of. My problem concerns aimlbot 2.5 and Alice programs like Rebecca,WinAlice, and others. I can not access the internet for search purposes using these AI programs. I have tried all I know with no results. I have found about 10 aiml programs that are supposed to search Google or any other search site but none of them will work. They do not attempt to open a web page and search. When I tell the AI to search Google for Automobiles nothing happens except to read the search routine back to me out loud while not actually performing the search. I know my computer is OK because I have an AI from Conversive called Verbots and it performs flawlessly. I do have my firewall set to pass aimlbot and my pop up blocker is turned off. I tried to use one of your aiml examples to open Notebook from the Cmd line but nothing happens. Any assistance appreciated. Thanks
2010-02-14 22:47
Hey ntoll,
Could you not release what was to be AIMLBot 3.0 as a release on the Sourceforge.net project page (assuming it’s working properly)? There are some annoyances with 2.5 that I’d want gone, and I’m assuming they’re fixed in your version… Will BotKit be totally different from AIMLBot then?
2011-07-30 03:09
I was hoping you would finish what you started
or at least have a new opensource project :(
oh well good luck.