(c) 1996 John A. Reder

The OmniBotAI product — a Bot which I offered here as a free download since its inception in May of 1996 — was a promotional example of software that I wrote earlier in my programming career to show my skills as a software developer and consultant. It has been sold to OmniBot.ai with all its rights, including software, naming, and trademark. OmniBot.ai will keep up with its commercial use as a classic OmniBot for promotional and showcase purposes.

This program is no longer available on this site.

This program is an Artificially Intelligent Chat-bot designed to learn from its users and hold an intelligent conversation. It can read text files and learn from them! OmniBotAI can be taught associations and shown how to launch programs on your system.

OmniBotAI FAQ v1.0

Q: Can OmniBotAI be trained?

A: OmniBotAI can associate by being fed lines like dog|wolf|puppy. The | is a pipe symbol (usually on the same key as \).

Q: OmniBotAI can run programs — how do I teach it to launch one?

A: OmniBotAI can execute programs by being fed information like: solitaire, execute c:\windows\sol.exe

Q: How can I get OmniBotAI to learn from a text document?

A: Learn.exe is a DOS command-line program. It prompts you with three questions: the path and filename of the .TXT file to learn; whether the text file has numbers (e.g., the Bible) and whether to ignore them; and how to quote what it learns — by single sentences (lines ending with periods) or by paragraphs. The output file is called memory.dat — rename it to a .mem extension. OmniBotAI looks for .mem files as its memory modules.

Q: How can I get OmniBotAI to start with mem files already loaded?

A: The first two lines of a .mem file contain the title (e.g., chit chat) and on or off to set whether it's loaded by default at startup.