Inspiration
The other day, I was scrolling through instagram, and I saw a scary video. It was about how many die of suicide in the US alone. The hotline gives a way for people to figure out why other humans enjoy living and perhaps convince them as well. The chat bot attempts to do something similar at a much lower level and even gives the number for professional hotlines.
What it does
The chatbot attempts to converse with an individual in trouble like someone as if it is a hotline speaker, but it also gives info on how to contact actual hotlines.
How we built it
We learned about rules based chat bots through the workshop, but then we separately googled simple ways to implement it as my wordnet would not work.
Challenges we ran into
It is not AI based so it often does not understand what a user said and some prompts are harder to create a pattern from.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
It is able to hold a conversation like a normal chat bot to some extent.
What we learned
We learned how to recognize patterns and use those to respond.
What's next for Social good
A lot of things that try to prevent issues nearby like hotlines may be able to be changed to AI as that would free up humans to focus on tasks that may affect humans in the long term like research in mental health or biology.
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