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Most of the people connect AI to a Robot, thinking it to be capable of doing all kind of things even
beyond human capacity such as in movies Star Wars and Terminator. In reality, current technological
developments utilise AI to empower us and help us go about our daily responsibilities.
Artificial Intelligence is being used in endless ways. As we know by now that AI is the ability
of a system or a program to think and learn from the experience. Let us now learn the various
types of AI-based applications.
Chatbot
Popularly known as Bot, a chatbot is a computer program that allows humans to interact with
technology using a variety of input methods such as voice, text, gesture and touch. Chatbots are
available 24/7 and 365 days. Bots don’t just rely on text anymore but can work with emoji, voice-
to-speech and speech-to-voice to provide the most natural or appropriate way of working.
Brainy Fact
Between 1964 and 1966, Joseph Weizenbaum, a German American computer scientist
at MIT's artificial intelligence lab, developed the first-ever chatbot.
Nowadays chatbots are used in many places. Let us take a look at some commonly used
chatbots.
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