The third installment in my lineage of pseudo-intelligent IRC bots is sequelspeare: a neural network chatbot using Tensorflow as the framework. The previous bots, Swiggityspeare and Stupidspeare, had unruly development environments and no intelligence, respectively.
Sequelspeare is written entirely in Python, and requires minimal dependencies to make for easier use:
- Python3, the code was written in 3.5
ircpackage, installed via pip- Tensorflow, the code was written to support version 1.6
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The code is provided with an existing Shakespeare dataset, and an optional pre-trained network. To start using the code immediately, initialize and update the git submodule:
git submodule init
git submodule update
This will pull ~100MB(!) from the pretrained network repository, and place the files in sequelspeare/savedata/sequelspeare-pretrained-net.
To install the files, simply copy them with:
cp sequelspeare/savedata/sequelspeare-pretrained-net/* sequelspeare/savedata/
Alternatively, you can immediately train your own network with the shakespeare dataset with python3 train.py. This does not require the git submodule.
Once you have an existing network, edit the sequelspeare.json file to specify the IRC parameters: nick, server, port, etc... Once complete, start the bot with python3 sequelspeare.py
A VT220 serial terminal interface was created. Assuming the terminal is connected via serial cable, the following command should work:
python3 serial_interface.py