BOT

Published: 29th Nov, 2018

A bot is an application that performs an automated task, such as setting an alarm, telling you the weather or searching online.
Bots are often associated with sites like Twitter, but there are many other types.

What is a bot?

A bot is an application that performs an automated task, such as setting an alarm, telling you the weather or searching online.
Bots are often associated with sites like Twitter, but there are many other types.
Andre Gray invented the world’s very first Internet bot named “inkling” —a crawler bot.
Today, Internet bots are extremely crucial to the creation and functionality of the web and search engines.They make up to 65% of all Internet activity.

What can bots do?

Bots perform simple, structurally repetitive tasks much more quickly, efficiently, and accurately than is humanly possible.
It can help order food, shop for clothes, save money and find restaurants.
Many bots are programmed to act like humans and so when one talks to them, it feels like asking a person for help instead of just typing in a search engine.
For example, the Hi Poncho chatbot available in Facebook Messenger tells the weather around us.
A chatbot is a computer program designed to simulate human conversation.

How smart are these bots?

While artificial intelligence keeps getting better, there is still long way to go and make bots like Siri or Cortana more effective.
Presently, these bots cannot respond for anything which is not been simulated. Chatbots aren't doing too much better either.

Where can one find bots?

It can be found on many messaging apps, including Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Kik, and Telegram.
Twitter has bots which will reply to anyone, but usually not offer any assistance.

Are bots the future?

Some developers and companies believe that people are tired of apps and would rather use bots.
Instead of having many different apps in a phone, one could have single app with multiple bots that can help with different tasks.
In future there will be smarter bots at home (like Amazon's Alexa), on our phones and in our car that will help automate our lives.

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