Design Your Own IF/THEN Bot

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Instructions

✓ DOChoose a topic from your life as a student, or a local business you know.
✓ DOWrite at least 5 IF/THEN rules and 1 ELSE reply. Give your bot a creative name.
✓ DOTest your bot in Part 4 with at least 3 messages. Fix rules that do not work.
✕ DON'TCopy the CC-Chatty college bot from the class example. Create something original.
✕ DON'TUse ChatGPT or other AI to write your rules. You are the "brain" of this bot.
✓ DONE?Click Download PDF (it is named with your name), then upload the PDF to the LMS.

Student information

First name *

Last name *

Course *

Date *

Bot name *

Choose your bot's topic

Topic *

Write your IF/THEN rules

5 required · 3 optional

IF = the keywords the user might type. Separate several keywords with commas, e.g. price, cost, how much. THEN = what your bot replies.

ELSE — the reply when nothing matches *

Test your bot

0 tests

Chat with My bot

How your bot "thinks"

It checks your rules from 1 to 8. The first rule with a keyword inside the message wins. If no rule matches, it uses ELSE.

Try this

Type one message that should match, one with a spelling mistake, and one question your bot cannot answer. What happens?

Your bot's flowchart

Builds itself

Your rules table

Builds itself

#	IF the message includes	THEN the bot replies

Reflection

2–3 sentences each, your own words

What did you learn about how rule-based chatbots work? What happened in your tests? *

How would a generative AI chatbot like ChatGPT answer differently? One benefit and one risk. *

Your answers are saved in this browser while you work. In the print window, choose Save as PDF. Upload the PDF to the LMS. File name: DMM260_W1_FirstName_LastName

robert bestwickAdapted from the CC-Chatty student assignment