'bot

plural 'bots

1. alternativecomputingAlternative form of bot.

   Sumo ’bots also tend to have very low ground clearance since they operate on dohyos, which have a very smooth rubberized running surface; […]

   2000 June, Robert Nansel, “Amateur Robotics Notebook: Robot City, USA”, in Nuts & Volts, volume 21, number 6, Corona, Calif.: T & L Publications, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 53, column 1

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   For mudders like myself (an AI researcher), ’bots and their associated likely behavior patterns are old hat. I tend to expect that random characters on a mud might be ’bots, and tend to know how to tell (generally, even the best ’bots or other AI programs fall victim to very simple conversational gambits, such as topical conversation, slang, or a conversation requiring a complicated discourse model such as reference to subjects more than a couple exchanges in the past).

   1993, Leonard N. Foner, “What's an Agent, Anyway? A Sociological Case Study”, in MIT Media Lab, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2022