chatbot
See also: Chatbot
English
Etymology
chat + -bot, from earlier chatterbot.
Pronunciation
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈtʃætbɑt/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
chatbot (plural chatbots)
- (artificial intelligence) A computer program that holds conversations through a chat room.
- The chatbot was quite simple yet informative.
- 2000, Handbook on Electronic Commerce, Springer, →ISBN, page 59:
- To deal with a large number of typical queries, “chatbots” technology should be considered. A chatbot can be defined as an intelligent evolution of email. The chatbot categorizes messages on the fly and provides answers to questions accordingly. As such, it can be used as a customer support tool.
- 2012, Brian Christian, The Most Human Human […] , Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 29:
- Wolfram Alpha researcher and chatbot author Robert Lockhart describes the chatbot community as being split between two competing approaches, what he calls “pure semantics” and “pure empiricism.”
- 2015, John Markoff, Machines of Loving Grace […] , New York: Ecco Press, →ISBN, page 221:
- Chatbot technology, of course, dates back to Weizenbaum’s early experiments with his Eliza program.
- 2023 January 16, Kalley Huang, “Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- Mr. Aumann confronted his student over whether he had written the essay himself. The student confessed to using ChatGPT, a chatbot that delivers information, explains concepts and generates ideas in simple sentences — and, in this case, had written the paper.
Translations
program that holds conversations
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See also
- infobot
Dutch
Etymology
From English chatbot, equivalent to chatten + bot.
Noun
chatbot m (plural chatbots or chatbotten, diminutive chatbotje n)
- chatbot
Related terms
- chatten
- robot, bot
- voicebot
Spanish
Noun
chatbot m (plural chatbots)
- chatbot