How would i do this?

[JT8101997]

Hello. Question here, not language specific idk if that's important. (i only know visual basic at the moment from school but I'm learning c#). If I'm making an AI type program kind of like cleverbot i guess, rather than using a million if then statements, how could i make it so i could just type something in and then what response it should give back? Like how could i make a program where I could create the structure for a conversation and it would create and save the if then statements for me? Idk if this is making any sense sorry. Hopefully it does. I'm probably going to use c# but i might just use vb just to test out the concept of it and then move over to learning it on c# once i know how to do it. Thanks for any help in advance.

[Ykno]

so you want to make a program that you would type hello how are you and it would reply with I'm okay or are you after a program that will reply back with present text no matter what is said to it so you would say go away and it would reply with hello how are you 

[JT8101997]

so you want to make a program that you would type hello how are you and it would reply with I'm okay or are you after a program that will reply back with present text no matter what is said to it so you would say go away and it would reply with hello how are you

The first one. Like it would respond differently depending on what i say. I know i could just do that with a ton of if then statements but how could i make it so i could type them in and hit enter and it would create the if then statements for me rather than typing them all out myself?

[dannytech357]

Is this what you're looking for (VB):

Select Case inputString     Case "hello"          Your code here

Much simpler, it takes the input variable and then you just write "case" and whatever you're checking for.

[madknight3]

Google and research things like "programming a chatbot". 

• Chatbot Tutorial
• Developing AI chatbots
• What is the best way to learn and write a AI Chat bot?
• etc

See how others do it and learn from them.

[PlutoNZL]

A very simple solution could be to create key-value pairs in a file, where the key is the user's input and the value is the bot's response. Your application could read in the key-value pairs and store them in a Dictionary (if using C#). You could then ask the user for input, look up the input in the Dictionary and print the response.

 

Here's my quick implementation:

class Program{    static void Main(string[] args)    {        Dictionary<string, string> responses = LoadResponses("responses");        string userInput;        while (!(userInput = Console.ReadLine()).Equals("exit"))        {            Console.WriteLine(responses[userInput]);        }    }    static Dictionary<string, string> LoadResponses(string filePath)    {        Dictionary<string, string> responses = new Dictionary<string, string>();        foreach (var line in File.ReadLines(filePath))        {            string[] inputAndResponse = line.Split('=');            responses[inputAndResponse[0]] = inputAndResponse[1];        }        return responses;    }}

Here's what my responses file contains:

Hello=Hello, how are you?I'm good thanks, how are you?=Can't complain

[as96]

You would probably want to make it dynamic, so you have a file that contains the question and the answer you can make it a CSV, XML or whatever you prefer then load it into a dictionary.