What is a chatbot, and how does it work?

Interview with a chatbot

Chiara Martino
Bootcamp

“An oil painting of a journalist interviewing a chatbot” — automatically generated by DALL-E

Let’s humanize a chatbot and pretend it can be interviewed — how would it describe what it is, and what happens when it receives a user inquiry?

What a chatbot is

— Interviewer: “Hey Ms Chatbot, how are you doing?”

— Ms Chatbot: “Hello Ms Interviewer! I’m doing great! How are you?”

— Interviewer: “Ready for the interview! Are you ready?”

— Ms Chatbot: “I am! Enough with the small talk… let’s get started!”

— Interviewer: “Very well, let’s start from the basics… what are you guys, exactly?”

— Ms Chatbot: “We, the chatbots, are software that can understand what humans type using their own language, and give them a coherent answer in the same language”

“A journalist interviewing a chatbot” — automatically DALL-E

— Interviewer: “Got it. So, where does your name come from?”

— Ms Chatbot: “The word chatbot is the short form of chatterbot, you know, which was coined by Michael Mauldin in 1994. He put together the term chat, that stands for conversation, and the abbreviation bot that stands for…

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Responses (1)

What are your thoughts?

Hello. For a very long time, I am searching for The resource to learn and built a chatbot especially ( Rasa Ai because it is Open Source) if you can add any learning resources to your article it would grate