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Author
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Emilio Ferrara, Onur Varol, Clayton Davis, Filippo Menczer, Alessandro Flammini
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Year
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2016
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Publisher
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Communications of the ACM
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Abstract
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Bots (short for software robots) have been around since the early days of computers. One compelling example of bots is chatbots, algorithms designed to hold a conversation with a human, as envisioned by Alan Turing in the 1950s.33 The dream of designing a computer algorithm that passes the Turing test has driven artificial intelligence research for decades, as witnessed by initiatives like the Loebner Prize, awarding progress in natural language processing.a Many things have changed since the early days of AI, when bots like Joseph Weizenbaum’s ELIZA,39 mimicking a Rogerian psychotherapist, were developed as demonstrations or for delight.
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Language
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ENGLISH