'bot

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bot"

English

Noun

'bot (plural 'bots)

1. (computing) Alternative form of bot
   • 1993, Leonard N. Foner, “What's an Agent, Anyway? A Sociological Case Study”, in MIT Media Lab‎^[1], archived from the original on 9 December 2022:

     For mudders like myself (an AI researcher), ’bots and their associated likely behavior patterns are old hat. I tend to expect that random characters on a mud might be ’bots, and tend to know how to tell (generally, even the best ’bots or other AI programs fall victim to very simple conversational gambits, such as topical conversation, slang, or a conversation requiring a complicated discourse model such as reference to subjects more than a couple exchanges in the past).

Anagrams

• BTO, OTB