'bot

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bot"

English

Noun

'bot (plural 'bots)

  1. (computing) Alternative form of bot.
    • 1993, Leonard N. Foner, “What's an Agent, Anyway? A Sociological Case Study”, in MIT Media Lab‎[1], archived from the original on 9 December 2022:
      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).
    • 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:
      Sumo ’bots also tend to have very low ground clearance since they operate on dohyos, which have a very smooth rubberized running surface; […]

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