Chatbot!

Our favorite AI nemesis, HAL9000 vs. Dave Bowman

• Construct a chatbot that responds to various inputs from Dave
• Feel free to use the HTML and CSS scaffolds or construct your own
• Be creative with your logic and responses!
• Feel free to also change the characters and anything in the starter code—be creative!

Grading Rubric (Pass/Partial/Fail)

Required

• Have the AI respond to user input
• Do at least 3 different things
• One of the commands must utilize the list of people in the class to send a reply
• Use at least 1 conditional to change the response
• Leverage a for loop to iterate over a collection
• Use a random component
• Go above and beyond simple if/else statements

Stretch Goals

• Have 2 or more AIs responding based upon user input
• Use a regular expression to parse and manipulate the response
• Have a conversation between two AIs (without creating an infinite loop!)

Deliverables

• A working chatbot hosted somewhere publicly accessible (CodePen, Github Pages, etc.)
• A new git respository containing your code
• A README.md file with explanations of what your bot does, what commands it responds to, the approach taken, unsolved problems, etc.