Chat Botとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• chat bot

語源

From chat +‎ -bot, from earlier chatterbot.

発音

• (Canada) IPA: /ˈtʃætbɑt/

名詞

chatbot (plural chatbots)

1. (Internet, artificial intelligence) A computer program that holds conversations through a chat room.

   The chatbot was quite simple yet informative.

   • 2000, Handbook on Electronic Commerce‎, Springer, →ISBN, page 59:

     To deal with a large number of typical queries, “chatbots” technology should be considered. A chatbot can be defined as an intelligent evolution of email. The chatbot categorizes messages on the fly and provides answers to questions accordingly. As such, it can be used as a customer support tool.

   • 2012, Brian Christian, The Most Human Human […] , Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 29:

     Wolfram Alpha researcher and chatbot author Robert Lockhart describes the chatbot community as being split between two competing approaches, what he calls “pure semantics” and “pure empiricism.”

   • 2015, John Markoff, Machines of Loving Grace […] , New York: Ecco Press, →ISBN, page 221:

     Chatbot technology, of course, dates back to Weizenbaum’s early experiments with his Eliza program.

   • 2023 January 16, Kalley Huang, “Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Mr. Aumann confronted his student over whether he had written the essay himself. The student confessed to using ChatGPT, a chatbot that delivers information, explains concepts and generates ideas in simple sentences — and, in this case, had written the paper.

   • 2023 May 8, Naomi Klein, “AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Generative AI won’t be the end of employment, we are told, only “boring work” – with chatbots helpfully doing all the soul-destroying, repetitive tasks and humans merely supervising them.

   • 2025 June 13, Kashmir Hill, “They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Before ChatGPT distorted Eugene Torres’s sense of reality and almost killed him, he said, the artificial intelligence chatbot had been a helpful, timesaving tool.

   • 2025 July 16, Marcus Mendes, “Grok may be breaking App Store rules with sexualized AI chatbots, and that’s not the only problem”, in 9 to 5 Mac‎:

     Last year, a 14-year-old boy died by suicide after falling in love with a chatbot from Character.AI. The last thing he did was have a conversation with an AI avatar that, possibly failing to recognize the severity of the situation, reportedly encouraged him to go through with his plan to “join her”.

参考

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