A chatbot is a computer programme designed to hold a spoken or written coversation with a human.

And while the chatbot's answers to other questions were equally vague, this one rang true.

For instance, when the chatbot tells a human something like "seems the mail is not loading," it's making this up.

Mitsuku claims to be an 18-year-old female chatbot from Leeds.

Having a person speak a chatbot's answers changes people's perceptions of the AI.

After four rounds of questioning the Mitsuku chatbot was declared to be the most convincing.

Google, for instance, has used neural nets to build a chatbot that debates the meaning of life.

How do you think Chatbot works?

If typed into the chatbot, Ricky will comment that this code will be needed again next week.

The chatbot became one of the most popular features of Word and received a large amount of personal email.

Mitsuku has been built upon the Pandora bot pen source chatbot code and tools.

The chatbot took top prize in the Loebner contest that puts the artificially intelligent programs through their paces.

The chatbot, as these computerized conversationalists are known, replied, "As good as most, better than some."

A chatbot called Mitsuku has won an annual contest to see if computers can convincingly imitate humans.

Whereas a corporate chatbot represents a brand, a digital assistant reflects its user's profile and preferences.

But this chatbot wasn't completely convincing.

A chatbot lacks motive: it has no particular reason to say what it says and it speaks without really listening.

Earlier this year, Google unveiled a chatbot that could debate the meaning of life, or help a human user troubleshoot internet connectivity problems.

Conversation with the chatbot will be recordable and can then be cut and pasted into an essay.

Witness a chatbot Google is building by feeding old movie dialogue into a neural net so the bot can learn to carry on a conversation.

FreeHAL is a distributed computing project to build a self-learning chatbot.

In China, Microsoft's popular chatbot Xiaoice has just become a trainee anchor on live television.

The chatbot can appear insistent or offended, and an attempt to obtain personal information will cause Negobot to try to find out more about the suspect.

The first iteration of his home-grown chatbot was a teddy bear, he told the BBC.

In 2005 Prelude won the prestigious chatterbox contest in the category of self-learning chatbot.

A chatterbot is a computer program that responds to input in a natural language.

"But if we think of the chatterbot as a very good help system, that's certainly possible within a couple of years."

A chatterbot can be thought of as the spokesperson for an artificial intelligence'.

The chatterbot takes the guise of a naive and vulnerable 14-year-old girl.

The Loebner prize is an award given out every year to a chatterbot.

The chatterbot program rarely has any degree of autonomy.

It is no surprise that most chatterbot developers cite popular culture as a key influence on their career choices.

Originally, $2,000 was awarded for the most human-seeming chatterbot in the competition.

There has also been a published report of a chatterbot used in a fake personal ad on a dating service's website.

To disguise its identity from the judges, the chatterbot used the name Jim Lewis.

The chatterbot then puts together a reply, often personalized with the user's name or a reference to a previous statement.

Their main objective was to create a chatterbot with the ability to trap online predators that posed a threat to children.

A chatterbot may be deployed in a smartphone app.

The published Racter was similar to a chatterbot.

Then the chatterbot identifies key words in the user's statement that match terms in its database.

Visitors to the chatterbot encountered a simple graphic interface: an animated character living in a small, very clean apartment.

And the Oracle Corporation, the software company, is considering chatterbot applications for internal help systems.

Fred Chatterbot is designed to explore Natural Language communications between people and computer programs.

From 1998, Word featured a chatterbot named Fred the Webmate.

Tellingly, this early chatterbot found fame by mimicking a psychoanalyst who asks questions instead of giving advice.

Elbot is a chatterbot created by Fred Roberts.

Users can communicate with the chatterbot via typing or via a speech recognition engine.

Its boards include various drug-specific boards, as well as a board featuring a chatterbot.

Fred - an early chatterbot by Robby Garner.

Jeeney AI is a natural language processing chatterbot.

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.

IM bots are also called interactive agents.

IM bot is a chatterbot program that uses instant messaging as an application interface.

IM users can add the name of the IM bot to their buddy list.

In "My profile" was added additional functionality to your IM bots and additional functions.

Some IM bots are able to connect to outside databases and provide the user with news, weather reports, driving directions, movie times, stock quotes, and other information.

The bot must have called you after he gave me your number.

How can you tell if someone is using the bot?

I had to really think about where to drive that bot.

But like the other, this bot failed to come on line.

Not everyone using a bot was trying to make a profit, however.

They can not give the order to their bot fleet.

The 'bot reached out and pushed the control to open the next door.

They tell him to bring the 'bot to the ship directly.

During that same year, a bot was used to create a large number of articles.

But the 'bot is having trouble getting any further resolution.

From the 'bot point of view the gray ice shot by below.

The first edition of Bot sold out in 3 months.

Perhaps, though, they are able to filter the bot numbers from the real players.

Grant sent out a message once and the 'bot didn't try to stop him.

We are aware of bot technology being used in the Australian market.

The bot can read it just as any screen reader.

The 'bot began setting plates on the table before her.

You would actually have your bot on the adult website.

To date, already about half of its articles were created by a single bot.

Captain Bot said the alarm was raised at about 7am.

My father started to sing and the bot immediately joined in.

The bot beamed at him as if he were the only person in the world.

I didn't see a single bot anywhere in the shaft.

The first bot gives itself away just 10 seconds into its opening conversation.

If a bot broke one, it came straight out of profits.

My mum calls me a chatterbox because I will talk to anyone.

The chatterboxes also spend 274 hours on the phone to friends.

She was a great little chatterbox, but I didn't often listen.

So Chatterbox decided to use this space to get the word out.

Try the game from Chatterbox on the back cover and see for yourself!

This just goes to show what an impact Chatterbox has.

She also provides the voice of Chatterbox on the show.

But Chatterbox wasn't going to do anything without talking to a lawyer.

I came to regard him as a bit of a chatterbox.

Five days in the belly of a chatterbox and I shouldn't have learned talk?

But by then, of course, he wasn't taking Chatterbox very seriously.

The drug company, though, needs to cut expenses, and two of the chatterboxes have to go.

And she has a very hard time telling a chatterbox like you to stop trying to teach her how to talk.

I think your mummy's got a little chatterbox at home.

"That is one of the reasons why we have been testing the Chatterbox."

No chatterbox, as you may have gathered, which is all to his credit.

Not a great chatterbox, but generally very pleasant to be with.

Check out our Chatterbox page for discussions on various medical problems.

I couldn't imagine what sort of animal she thought 'a little chatterbox' was.

But a friend reminds Chatterbox that a few things did happen in 1999.

I felt Chatterbox was not as mature and he'll only be having a quiet season.

"We know firsthand the problems of two chatterboxes talking at once," he said.

She was known at all the fairs as the chatterbox.

His talking is just phenomenal - he's a real chatterbox.

When Chatterbox arrived home, the news shows were still broadcasting from the scene.

During the experiment, five artificial conversational entities (ACEs) competed in a series of five-minute long, unrestricted conversational tests.

Hence yesterday’s Turing Test, in which human judges simultaneously conversed with an "artificial conversational entity" such as Eugene and a "hidden human" for five minutes.

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.

After testing by over one hundred judges during the preliminary phase, in June and July 2008, six finalists were selected from thirteen original entrants - artificial conversational entity (ACE).

In an experiment known as the Turing Test after the great British mathematician Alan Turing, the six Artificial Conversational Entities (ACEs) tried to fool human interrogators into thinking they were also human.

Elbot of Artificial Solutions won the 2008 Loebner Prize bronze award, for most human-like artificial conversational entity, through fooling three of the twelve judges who interrogated it (in the human-parallel comparisons) into believing it was human.

In the first Loebner Prize for artificial intelligence, in 1991, which deployed restricted conversational one-to-one Turing imitation games, each interrogator chatted to one artificial conversational entity (ACE) at a time, a female confederate or hidden-human, about William Shakespeare.

The Loebner Prize tests conversational intelligence; winners are typically chatterbot programs, or Artificial Conversational Entities (ACE)s. Early Loebner Prize rules restricted conversations: Each entry and hidden-human conversed on a single topic, thus the interrogators were restricted to one line of questioning per entity interaction.

So you probably have the add-on as the interactive agent.

This paper explores the extent to which socially interactive agents can contribute to addressing these concerns.

A key element in the implementation of socially interactive agents is a high degree of personification or 'character'.

IM bots are also called interactive agents.

The idea for interactive agents (also known as Internet bots) came from the team's vision to add functionality to increasingly popular instant messaging services.

Interactive book created with DHTML and an interactive agent (Peedy)

These models have been used for animation, for synthesising interactive agents, and for detecting atypical events in traffic and pedestrian scenes.

ActiveBuddy sought to strengthen its hold on the interactive agent market for the future by filing for, and receiving, a controversial patent on their creation in 2002.

Colloquis, previously known as ActiveBuddy and Conversagent, was a company that created conversation-based interactive agents originally distributed via instant messaging platforms.

In a paper presented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in 1997, Tandy discussed how to create conversational interfaces for interactive agents.

"We needed to find a solution that would reduce contact volume caused by tax filing deadlines," said Kris Nagoda, project manager for TurboTax Interactive Agent at Intuit Inc.

The company also released the BuddyScript SDK, a free developer kit that allow programmers to design and launch their own interactive agents using ActiveBuddy's proprietary scripting language, in 2002.

InfiniteAgent focuses on large-scale data delivery, alerting and interactivity over many messaging protocol for clients like AOL, MLB, Verizon, Sprint, CareerBuilder and Dow Jones providing protocol conversion services, interactive agents (bots), customer service applications and large-scale alerting services.