Meet Annie. Annie is a chatbot for those who suffer from anxiety or depression. The idea behind Annie is to see if I could train a chatbot based off reddit data. I wanted to see if it is possible to create a chatbot that delivers appropriate responses to questions concerning topics of anxiety, depression, stress etc.

I did this by taking the top 1000 posts of all time subreddits such as r/Anxiety, r/depression, r/CasualConversation etc. Using these top posts, I trained Annie using the post title as the question, and the top comment as the appropriate response. This delivered mixed results; Sometimes it works extremely well but sometimes the responses are downright inappropriate - hence the above disclaimer. This is almost always due to the fact that the top comment sometimes pertains to the post's subtext, not the title.

You can find the project on https://github.com/TheRayFitzgerald/Annie/. There is a screenshot there to see how Annie works. Play around with it! You never know, your reddit post or comment may have been used to train Annie.