Created a chat bot based on Chandler from F.R.I.E.N.D.S
Chandler Bing is my favourite character from the famous sitcom F.R.I.E.N.D.S and thus this chatbot is a fun little side project to enjoy and leverage the power of machine learning for the purpose of entertainment.
You could talk with the bot here.
Our goal is to make a bot which would respond to situations/texts in a way that Chandler would. For that I used a dataset which consisted of the transcribed scripts of the complete show F.R.I.E.N.D.S. I sorted out the dialogues of Chandler and the context to that dialogue.
I used the DialoGPT-medium model provided by Microsoft on Hugging Face, and trained it over the training dataset i.e. the dialogues of Chandler. As we don't have a way to measure the accuracy of a chat bot, I indulged on checking the perplexity of the chat bot which tells how confused the bot is about himself. A lower perplexity means a smarter bot.
The perplexity can be lowered by raising the number of epochs and training it over more clean data,but as of now the model has generated a bot of 4.6389 perplexity while it was trained for 10 epochs of 1800 iterations each.
