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PaW: Chatbots

Date: 07-10-2023

One of my first CS related projects was a morse code chatbot. Fueled by my obsession with radios and a lack of good resources to learn conversational morse code, I created a basic web app that allows users to have a conversation with a chatbot in morse code. This project can be viewed here. If you try using the website, you will notice that among a host of other problems, the chatbot does not respond. It turns out that the service I was using to create the chatbot api decided to implement a new policy that limited developers to 2000 api requests before requiring an upgrade to their pro version. Well instead of relying on a third party chatbot that could limit my usage at their whim, I decided to implement my own version. In that regards here is a paper that seems interesting enough which introduces multiple types of modern chatbots https://doi.org/10.1002/widm.1434. Let's get started with our first PaW!