How are chat bots on messaging apps created?
Here’s something I wrote in the “Internet Relay Chat Bots” thread on the Chatbots.org forum in October 2012:
I have noticed that very often IRC “do-engines” are erroneously referred to as “chat bots”. This has lead me to postulate a new theory for the origin of the term “chat bot”. I believe that “chat bot” may have come about in reference to “Internet Relay Chat” shortened to just “Chat”; therefore any IRC bots may have been referred to as “Chat bots”. I found it peculiar that so many “do-engines” were apparently erroneously being referred to as “conversational agents”; natural language commands do not a “chatbot” make….
See also my quick and dirty webpages: