How to Create a ChatBot with RiveScript

This session is a collaboration with TheWriter. We'll discuss a brief history of "chatbots" (computer programs designed to have a text-based conversation with a human user) and examine the landscape of tools and frameworks for creating them. We'll then build our own chatbots using RiveScript, a simple scripting language with a friendly, easy to learn syntax (no programming experience necessary!). After we build some simple chatbots, we'll look at how RiveScript can be integrated in a web application with JavaScript.