Rule-Based AI Chatbot

This is Project 1 for the DecodeLabs Artificial Intelligence Industrial Training Kit.

Project Goal

Create a simple rule-based chatbot that responds to predefined user inputs using basic control flow and dictionary-based response mapping.

Features

• Handles greetings and simple questions
• Uses input sanitization with lowercase conversion and whitespace removal
• Runs inside a continuous loop
• Supports clean exit commands
• Uses a dictionary instead of a long if-elif ladder
• Includes fallback response for unknown inputs

Technologies Used

• Python 3

How to Run

python chatbot.py

Example Inputs

hello
how are you
what is your name
help
what can you do
exit

Concepts Demonstrated

• Control flow
• Loops
• Dictionaries
• Functions
• Rule-based AI logic
• Input/output handling