DJ, you are the man!

:)

@fxrst Will, Owww! Hope you're feeling better (Lay off the diet Coke!)

I've followed many of the ai discussions on the forum. I'm glad we have so many talented folks here; I feel like a kid lost in the forest, and you guys are leading me out!

I've wanted/hoped for a "magic mushroom" solution for years. Every so often, I go and re-visit my chatbot plans; usually scrapping everything and picking up with (what I think is) a better method/technology/application.

My ai/chatbot needs are a lot less sophisticated (I think). All I want is to be able to have a friendly conversation with my robot, and for him to (simulate) some intelligence. I don't really want him to be cloud-based, although I wouldn't mind if he went online to get some info, check the weather, etc.

I played around with a program called "Ultra Hal", which seemed promising, and then the developer pretty moved on to other things. Pandora bots has been my second on- again, off-again choice, but setting up a local Pandorabot server is a task I haven't been able to overcome (yet).

A big part of the problem is my many interests; I switch from one to another as inspiration moves me. That's a big detriment to robot/ai building, because when the motivation strikes, everything I've done has evolved and I need to catch up.

I'll be keeping an eye on this thread!

Thanks Warpig, not Diet Coke, maybe it’s the IV drip of RedBull?!

As David C pointed out a year ago these new technologies are developing so fast by so many different companies, but they are more or less the same. I think that was one reason in part why he abandoned EZ-AI.

We are just at the horizon of a true sci fi future. It’s kinda neat to watch it unfold.

Thank you DJ!

For anyone looking to add more chat functions to their robot and have no intention of developing a product and maybe they have watched a couple dialogflow videos and think to themselves aspects of it seem scary to learn and implement...

I say take a look again a Pandorbots, because their interface is super simple. In fact take a look at member @Perry_S member profile and download his cloud app for "RobotMan" because it is a super clean project (nice job Perry!) and demonstrates how you can use Pandorbots.

@SteveG wrote a very good tutorial which still applies, if you use their old website. You can still create accounts and make new bots. The training interface to teach the chatbot is as simple as it gets.

You don't have to make your own Pandora bot if you don't want to, there are lots of ready made chat bots but if you want to customize yours you can make a blank one or start with a preloaded template and customize from there.

I implemented a Pandorabot myself the other day in 30 minutes that included going through the tutorial, setting up an account, creating a new bot and customizing some features. It was a lot a fun. The chat interface is really cute. There is no reason why we can't add this fun feature to our robots.

I was just having a quick play with Google API.AI and when I install plugin I get the following error, it still executes but annoying. Error on line 1: Missing String Quotes or Invalid Expression at index 0: jd

anyone else get this?

Post your code please. It’s impossible to diagnose and help fix your code without seeing it.

Edit: MY BAD Thanks DJ

I put the google Project ID where it said script in the API box. I deleted the name and it worked. I thought that was the name of google script it wanted to call.

actually no code created. i just installed your AI plugin on EZ-Robot desktop and followed tutorial for forward and reverse. Added my google token and app name..... Typed move forward 10 seconds in AI plugin direct in the plugin box NO SCRIPT and received "ok i will move forward for 10 seconds" response and the error "1: Missing String Quotes or Invalid Expression at index 0: jd".

Using latest version of EZ-Bulilder and Latest version of plugin latest version of win 10.