[alicebot-general] Newby Here!

[mehri]

Hi Daneil, and welcome to the community!

"I am looking for On Line tutorials to download and any links to compilers to help
compile aiml."

Well, for the online tutorials:

This is a good one.
http://www.pandorabots.com/botmaster/en/tutorial?ch=1

and after that here is one from Dr. Wallace that is also pretty good:
http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/pics/wallaceaimltutorial.html

 
Pandora bots is a good source because it lets you create bots online without having to download anything.  So you can run a bot through pandora bots for free at the same time you're going through the tutorial.  Once you start getting more advanced you can look at the primer and finally just dig into the spec:
http://www.alicebot.org/documentation/aiml-primer.html
http://www.alicebot.org/TR/2001/WD-aiml/


I'm hoping one day someone will put together a wiki with tutorials for AIML.  That's something we need.  Perhaps I might start one here soon.  Perhaps....;-)  

Now, for the compilers.  Well, AIML is really just XML that is ready by interpreters and not compiled at all.  For a good list of the interpreters you can follow this wiki link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIML


"Email me your bots also if you want so long as they are under 2KB in zip form."

Probably the most famous one to start with would be the Annotated Alice set:
http://www.alicebot.org/aiml/aaa/

Look at the links on the side that say, "Read me" and "Don't read me".  They're a really good starting point for the files.  Word of caution is that some of those files are specific to interpreters such as pandora bot.  Some interpreters by the way use extensions to the AIML language.  You'll have to just look at the documentation for the interpreter to see what extensions they might might not support.

For now, though, if you're just starting to get into AIML I would suggest concentrating on one thing.  Just having fun.  Create your own bot and start playing around and see where it next takes you.  That's what I've done and never looked back again.

"I am wondering how this might effect Integrated Circuit design in the future?  I sort of have a vision of Alice instructions pre written or burned onto a CPU and then the CPU accesses other files from the hard drive."
 
The cool thing about this community, is your vision is what will shape the future in an area such as this one.  Since none of us have done it, if you do it, you're the one that leads the vision.


----- Original Message ----
From: "danieljackson at netzero.net" <danieljackson at netzero.net>
To: alicebot-general at list.alicebot.org
Cc: danieljackson at netzero.net
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 7:56:44 PM
Subject: [alicebot-general] Newby Here!

Hello

  I am an electronics tech/engineer and designer.  I have been looking
at Alicebot for awhile and have some compiled versions of Alice and
Howie, etc.  And I have aiml libraries to look over. I am looking for
On Line tutorials to download and any links to compilers to help
compile aiml. 

  I anyone has anything educational to email me in this regard please
feel free to do so.  Links, text, pdf files, html files.  Whatever you
feel it is that I might benefit from.  Email me your bots also if you
want so long as they are under 2KB in zip form.

  I am wondering how this might effect Integrated Circuit design in the
future?  I sort of have a vision of Alice instructions pre written or
burned onto a CPU and then the CPU accesses other files from the hard
drive.  Actually this can be done now if one knows Eprom programing. 
Don't let me however devise a scheme on how this should be done.  I
would have to learn aiml up one side and down another to begin to
address this idea.  And then revisit machine language programing to
address the Eprom issue.  And then there are the Stamp circuit ICs
which can also be looked at since they are increasing in memory size
all of the time.  Alice as a CPU version seems very possible at this time.

Daniel Jackson

   


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