A chatbot (or chatterbot) is a computer program that responds to input in a natural language. An example is ELIZA. This was one of the first chatbots....

given out every year to a chatterbot. The winner is chosen by a Turing test: Each judge talks (text-based) to a chatterbot and to a human. The judge guesses...

Weizenbaum explained to them how it worked. It was one of the first chatterbots in existence. Using Java, and based very closely on Weizenbaum's published...