What is a Chat Bot? A chatbot is an artificial intelligence (AI) digital assistant. The program is designed to simulate human conversation using pre-calculated responses to common customer questions.

It seems like barely a day passes without some notable mention of chat bots in the tech industry. Now one of North America’s most used chat apps has jumped on the wagon after Kik, the billion dollar ...

Bot Metrics, a San Francisco-based company that specializes in — you got it.. — metrics and analysis for chat bots has landed funding to help developers and early bot enthusiasts get a better ...

As part of its continuous push to market its AOL Instant Messenger program, America Online is testing a new instant-chat robot that answers questions from AIM users about weather and stocks. In ...

Microsoft is testing a new chat bot, Tay.ai, that is aimed primarily at 18 to 24 year olds in the U.S. Tay was built by the Microsoft Technology and Research and Bing teams as a way to conduct ...

Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, instructors have worried about how students might circumvent learning by utilizing the chat bot to complete homework and other assignments. Over the years, the ...

My artificially intelligent friend is called Pardesoteric. It’s the same name I use for my Twitter and Instagram accounts, a portmanteau of my last name and the word “esoteric,” which seems to suit my ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the impacts of computing & technology in manufacturing. This article is more than 5 years old. Chat bots are ...

Microsoft has unleashed a social media AI onto the internet — and she can be a bit of a jerk. On Wednesday, the company released Tay.ai, an artificial intelligence chat bot "with no chill" aimed at 18 ...

The chat bot had been sidelined after making racist comments. — -- Microsoft's millennial chat bot "Tay" made a brief reappearance on Twitter this morning but still didn't make a stellar ...