chat bot
‘Chat bot’ is according to Google Trends the most popular term compared to its synonyms ‘chatbot’, ‘chatterbot’ and ‘virtual agent’. Interesting detail is that there aren’t many companies out there who use this term: but consumers use it (apparently)!
Resources using the term chat bots
There are many pages on the web using ‘chat bot’, but most of them are ‘extremely’ old (before 2000) or early years in this millennium and not maintained since then.
A few relevant pages that are more recent:
- Alicebot by Richard Wallace, inventor of AIML and now Chief Science Officer at Pandorabots Inc.
- Google Chat Bot project by Douwe Osinga
- Chat bot widgets on Widgetbox
- Site Chatters
Pages on this website using 'chat bots'
- Chatbots 3.0 Final Program released
- Final Program of Chatbots 3.0 Conference
- Pandorabots artificial characters in Smallworlds
- Captain Kirk
- Pandorabots introduces SpellBinder Service
- Alabot gets funded
- Cindy
- Welcome to chatbots.org 2.0!
- Program-O
- Yuichan
Synonyms for chat bots
The worldwide community doesn’t yet have consensus on what terminology to use to address chatbots. Synonyms are virtual agents, interactive virtual agents (IVA), brand agents, branded agents, virtual assistants, artificial conversational entities, virtual employees, conversational agents, embodied conversational agents (ECA), chatterbots, conversational systems, chatterbox, virtual chat agents, or chat bots. Additionally lots of local variations on the usage of the terms exist. We strongly believe that the chatbot community should collaborate worldwide to standardize terminology, as that will professionalize the market. Chatbots.org is willing to facilitate this discussion. We’ll use the term ‘chatbot’ on this website.
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