The project consists of designing of a task based interactive chat bot in which we created a multipurpose chatbot which can do things such as checking weather forecast report; open calculator, chrome, maps, YouTube; greet the user; do google search; play music; give information about someone through Wikipedia, etc with the help of voice based commands.
This chatbot works based on pre-written keywords that it can understand. Each of these commands must be written by us separately using regular expressions or other forms of string analysis. If the user has asked a question without using a single keyword, the bot cannot understand it and, as a rule, responds with messages like “Say that again”. The main impact of the program is to interact with the user of the program and reduces his effort.
This chatbot can interact with the user through audio and take queries from the user using speech recognition. It works with only English language (i.e. it recognises only English language), but one can make his own chatbot which can recognise other languages as well.The chatbot makes use of internet – for making google search & tell information about someone through Wikipedia and current location of the user, with the help of IP address of the system. It also uses API for telling weather report from the website. Chatbot is built using python programming language and its libraries.
Python is interpreted, high-level, general purpose programming language. Created by a Dutch programmer, “Guido Van Rossum” and first released in 1991. Its implementation began in 1989.
It supports multiple programming paradigms, including procedural, object-oriented and functional programming. Python interpreters are available for many operating systems. A non-profit organisation, the “Python Software Foundation”, manages and directs resources for Python development.
• Presence of third-party modules
• Extensive Support libraries
• Learning Ease & Support Available
• Productivity and Speed
• Processor: Intel Atom or more.
• Memory: 2GB or more.
• Hard Disk Drive Space: 1GB or more
• Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 or later, MacOS, Linux
• Programming Language: Python 3.x up to Python 3.6.x
• Software: PyCharm or any other IDE that supports Python 3
• Python Libraries: pyttsx3, wikipedia, datetime, webbrowser, os, pyjokes, random, requests, speech_recognition, time, geocoder.
• Conversations are limited as limited features are added.
• Python and required libraries need to be present in the system.
• Internet is required.
• Chatbot does not have any Emotions.
• It has same answer for most of the queries.
• It is unable to deal with multiple questions at same time.
• This project can be made more accurate and precise with the help of NLP & Artificial Intelligence.
• Future of Chatbots is very bright. With so much advancement in Artificial Intelligence sector, chatbots are the future with zero doubt.
• The future chatbot will not be just a Customer Support agent, it will be an advance assistant for both the business and consumer.
• We as human are not fond of doing repetitive boring tasks. So, in the future companies will hire AI Chatbot for the tasks which are repetitive and doesn’t require creativity.
• Also, Human doesn’t like storing up contents (mugging up) in their mind. And today with the Internet they can leverage that part. So, tasks which require storing the information (data) can be transferred to AI Chatbot.
• And with AI Chatbot taking over repetitive boring tasks, Companies will utilize their human resources for more creative tasks. With this, we can expect more amazing things coming up to us in the future.
• So, summing all this up, yes, I see a lot potential of the AI Chatbot in the future. To make a product or technology successful, it needs public support and chatbot is getting that. With Advance modern technology coming up we can expect more astonishing features from a chatbot.