Student Number:
35598872
Project Overview:
The Rick Chatbot is an AWS, EC2, web server for an interactive, fan-made sci-fi chatbot based on the fictional character 'Rick' from 'Adult Swim's Rick and Morty'. The site acts as a fake e-commerce store, and its main feature is the interactive chatbot. It has a brief list of memorabilia from the show that references certain episodes, such as Rick’s classic portal gun and the classic existential crisis-filled butter robot. The site features simplistic colour theming with sci-fi green edge glow replicating the aesthetic from Rick's portal gun.
The Website is built using basic HTML for its structure and CSS and Javascript for front-end development. It is deployed on Amazon Web Service’s t2.micro free tier instance and uses Ubuntu 22.04 alongside Apache for its certificates.
The site is currently still in progress, with the AI’s API not being incorporated, but is currently ready UI and interface-wise for its implementation.
The main objective for creating this chatbot is to explore and present the possibility of themed AI assistants across the web. The rick-bot is designed to be a very basic test to show that having that extra interaction can increase site retention and relevance. The rick-bot acts as the site's assistant which projects Rick's humorous know-it-all attitude many love making dealing with him a much more enjoyable experience. Its main purpose is to further the online experience and make the chore of contacting support an enjoyable task.
This project demonstrates my frontend web development and my understanding of live cloud, web server management.
License Reasoning:
The Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license allows others to use, share and adapt my website for non-commercial, educational purposes, as long as credit is given to my site. This makes my project ideal for educational purposes to share and demonstrate the potential of themed characters and AI assistants. For the site, I wanted others to build upon it for learning opportunities and inspiration, not to profit from it.
Given the fact the site uses licensed characters such as Rick and Morty, the license ensures that it remains open and accessible to the fanbase whilst avoiding conflict with the IP owners.