Meaning of chatbot | Babel Free

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A computer program that holds conversations through a chat room.

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“The chatbot was quite simple yet informative.”

“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.”

“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.””

“Chatbot technology, of course, dates back to Weizenbaum’s early experiments with his Eliza program⟳.”

“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.”

“Generative AI won’t be the end⟳ of employment, we are told, only “boring work⟳” – with chatbots helpfully doing all the soul-destroying, repetitive tasks and humans merely supervising them.”

“Before ChatGPT distorted Eugene Torres’s sense⟳ of reality and almost killed him, he said, the artificial intelligence chatbot had been a helpful, timesaving tool.”

“Last⟳ year, a 14-year-old boy died by suicide after falling in love⟳ with a chatbot from Character.AI. The last⟳ thing he did was have⟳ a conversation with an AI avatar that, possibly failing to recognize the severity of the situation, reportedly encouraged him to go through with his plan⟳ to “join⟳ her”.”

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