chatterbot
The term ‘chatterbots’, plural for chatterbot and a ‘1 to 1’ synonym for chatbots, is most often used in US or UK based communities of individual developers who have developed a chatterbot themselves, and improving their creatures all the time, and submitting them to the the various awards.
In 1994, Michael Mauldin created a bot named Julia in an online MUD environment. He coined the term “chatterbot” to describe his conversational programs.
Resources using the term chatterbots
Popular, quality and up-to-date websites using the term ‘chatterbots’:
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- Pandorabots artificial characters in Smallworlds
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- Undress Anna (or Adam), Virtual Agents of Polish Postal Service.
- AIM Chatbots: Some NLP please?!
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- Ally of Dutch City Almere now on homepage
Synonyms for chatterbots
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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