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A mirror that talks back, trained to sound sure even when it's guessing.
means A computer program designed to simulate conversation with human users, typically through text.
from A straightforward 20th-century blend of 'chat' (friendly talk, itself from Middle English 'chateren,' meaning to chatter like a bird) and 'bot,' short for 'robot.' 'Robot' itself comes from the Czech 'robota,' meaning forced labor or drudgery, coined for a 1920s play about artificial workers. So the word quietly carries its own joke: a laborer built for idle talk.
- origin
- ELIZA fooled people in 1966 with simple pattern matching
- secret
- predicts the next word, not the truth
- irony
- best at confidence, not accuracy
- reality
- you're the one training it, every reply