chatterbot

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English

Etymology

From chatter +‎ -bot, coined by Michael Maudlin in 1994.[1][2]

Noun

chatterbot (plural chatterbots)

  1. (uncommon) Synonym of chatbot
    • 2001, Syed Mahbubur Rahman, Robert J. Bignall, editors, Internet Commerce and Software Agents: Cases, Technologies, and Opportunities, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 301:
      Since it has been shown that it is very important for a Talking Head interface to appear human and humane—it is instructive to see how a chatterbot is perceived by someone interfacing with them (Foner, 1993).

References

  1. ^ Michael F. McTear (2004) Spoken Dialogue Technology: Toward the Conversational User Interface, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 24:The term “chatterbot” was coined by Michael Maudlin, founder of the Lycos search engine (Maudlin, 1994).
  2. ^ Michael L. Mauldin (1994) “CHATTERBOTs, TINYMUDs, and the Turing Test: Entering the Loebner Prize Competition”, in Proceedings of the Twelfth AAAI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'94)‎, Seattle, Washington: AAAI Press, →DOI, archived from the original on 8 February 2023, pages 16–21