Pandorabots Videos

We've begun producing a series of Pandorabots instructional videos. There are three available right now: Creating an Account and Creating a Bot, No Initial Content, and Creating a Mobile Application using Custom HTML.

The videos have been posted on Youtube. The first one is a basic introduction to accounts and bot creation on Pandorabots.




The second video is a bit longer, going into detail about creating a unique bot personality with no initial content. The same technique can be used to create a bot in a foreign language.




Our third video is all about Custom HTML. We show how to change the appearance of your bot's web page, and in particular, modify it to look good on a mobile browser.

Adult Chat Bots Advance

Ever since chat bots were first developed, anyone who has thought about the technology for a few minutes usually comes up with the same big application idea: adult sex bots. But as with any bot, creating an adult bot is not as easy as it looks at first sight. Creating a believable bot requires persistence and dedication.

One of the sites where dedication has paid off is VirtualFem.com. Started in 2004, VirtualFem has grown into a sophisticated A.I. chat bot engine. Recently Mike of VirtualFem gave me a guest account to test drive their AIML software. Although I was expecting something rather simplified, I was impressed to find a full AIML development environment inside VirtualFem. According to Mike of VirtualFem, "Our built-in AIML editor has become strong enough that some members are using it to create AIML for other bots/software."

"We also use a state engine in combination with AIML so that we can play videos and responses at appropriate times. We refer to it as a 'front brain' where each girl has custom aiml, states, and videos and then there is a back end which all the girls share the same main AIML."

The VirtualFem bot brains have evolved to contain over 144,000 AIML categories. At that level, the illusion of intelligence becomes starkly convincing. You can check out the VirtualFem product online at http://www.virtualfem.com (WARNING: Site contains adult content).

ALICE and AIML videos on Youtube

There are some fun ALICE and AIML demo videos popping up on Youtube. This first one is an example of using voice recognition and speech synthesis to create an "interview." Be prepared to wait for some funny animation at the beginning of the video, before the interview starts. Parts of the interview are quite funny and highlight the difficulty of achieving high quality speech recognition.



The next video is another example of speech and voice also combined with a high quality avatar. Listening carefully to the bot's responses, you can hear a few custom responses, and a lot of replies straight out of the original free ALICE bot.



Several projects are underway to embed AIML bots in Second Life. This video shows an example. The bot object uses Linden Scripting Language to communicate with a Pandorabot.



The most popular Pandorabot continues to be the Flash iGod bot.
Several videos have appeared that incorporate chats with iGod. iGod does not represent any particular religion, but the script is based on the version of ALICE that claimed to be a "Protestant Christian".



And as a demonstration that a bot can be trained to follow any religion, watch this video of MuslimBot. Like the God bot, MuslimBot is hosted on Pandorabots.