A simple artificial intelligence approach for everyday use.

This repository contains

• The talk slides
• Supporting material and references
• A pip-installable pypi package of the [s]oftware that helps willbot think](http://github.com/hosbon/pycon2015-everyday-ai/willbot).

The easiest way to install willbot is with pip:

pip install https://github.com/hobson/pycon2015-everyday-ai.git#egg=eai-master

But if you really want to have some fun, you probably want to put the source code somewhere more easily hacked on than your virtualenv or system folders:

git clone https://github.com/hobson/pycon2015-everyday-ai.git

This instantiation of will called willbot was developed for the PyCon 2015 talk entitled "Everyday AI", because willbot will be watch out for you every day and night, if you wish. The bot here is progeny of the AI-assisted mind of Steven Skoczen and his community of developers on the will project. Building a chatbot using will is so easy, you might almost call it self-replication.

If you want to use this willbot (or some frakenstein version of him that you've coded up here) you'll need to configure some environment variables. The key ones are:

WILL_USERNAME and WILL_PASSWORD

If you'd like willbot to keep you company in a HipChat room, he'll need an account there. Create a new user and find it's XMPP/Jabber ID under Account settings. The Jabber ID is the WILL_USERNAME and the password you selected is the WILL_PASSWORD

You'll also need to set the variable

WILL_V2_TOKEN

This allows willbot to find your room within your organization (even if it's just your personal account) and see when you're around. You can find the WILL_V2_TOKEN at https://<your-org>.hipchat.com/account/api

Ideally, all 3 of these environment variables should be set in your virtualenv postactivate script that is run just before you issue the python run_will.py command from the commandline.