Saturday, September 10, 2016

AI Bots vs Agents

O'Reilly Bots Podcast - O'Reilly Media
"The O'Reilly Bots Podcast covers advances in conversational user interfaces, artificial intelligence, and messaging that are revolutionizing the way we interact with software".

Links:
Why 2016 is shaping up to be the Year of the Bot - O'Reilly Media

Artificial Intelligence - O'Reilly Media


"intelligent agent is software engineering model.
you can use it or them to develop bot or robot or in any software requiring interaction."


"In computer science, a software agent is a computer program that acts for a user or other program in a relationship of agency, which derives from the Latin agere(to do): an agreement to act on one’s behalf. Such “action on behalf of” implies the authority to decide which, if any, action is appropriate.[1][2] Agents are colloquially known as bots, from robot.

So in its most basic form, a “bot” is a bit of software that makes something happen. The most recent surge of use of the term mostly has to do with something Wikipedia calls a “chatterbot” which is now colloquially referred to as a “chatbot.” There’s basically just a computer program that can converse, presumably like a human.


A chatterbot (also known as a talkbot, chatbot, Bot, chatterbox, Artificial Conversational Entity) is a computer program which conducts a conversation via auditory or textual methods."


"Artificial intelligence isn't just about replacing humans with computers; the best managers will find ways to use AI to augment their workers."

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