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: robot
Bennett's referring to … a new police robot. It looks similar to the Albuquerque Bomb Squad robot next to it—both have cameras, an articulated arm, a mechanical gripper, and tank-like treads. But Benett's bot is different; it has brains.—
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Popular Science2
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: a computer program that performs automatic repetitive tasks : agent sense 5
Several shopping "bots" will track down prices for on-line merchandise from a variety of vendors.—Sam Vincent Meddis
Sam Vincent Meddis
especially
: one designed to perform a malicious action
These bot programs churn away all day and night, prodding at millions of random IP addresses looking for holes to crawl through. —Jennifer Tanaka
Jennifer Tanaka
b
: a computer that has been infected with a bot and can be used for malicious purposes as part of a network of infected computers
These proxies then sent instructions to worker bots in set patterns, including templates for spam creation.—Jeff Hecht
Jeff Hecht3
: a computer program or character (as in a game) designed to mimic the actions of a person
variants
or less commonly bott
: the larva of a botfly
especially
: one infesting the horse
1
botanical; botanist; botany
2
bottle
3
bottom
4
bought
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Nir Eisikovits, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
An army of bots have been deployed on X to praise Azerbaijan just ahead of the talks, The Washington Post reported.
—Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
Fake bot accounts and deepfakes are on the rise, often proliferated by foreign adversaries, while platforms like X have loosened efforts to limit misleading content.
—Jenn Brice, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
After today, all those political ads and bits of campaign mail and texts from bots pretending to be politicians will all be over.
—Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 5 Nov. 2024
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Noun
For example, creating a Plato chatbot that lets students have a text conversation with a bot posing as Plato is a cool gimmick.
—Nir Eisikovits, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
An army of bots have been deployed on X to praise Azerbaijan just ahead of the talks, The Washington Post reported.
—Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
Fake bot accounts and deepfakes are on the rise, often proliferated by foreign adversaries, while platforms like X have loosened efforts to limit misleading content.
—Jenn Brice, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
After today, all those political ads and bits of campaign mail and texts from bots pretending to be politicians will all be over.
—Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Bot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bot. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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bot
1 of 2 noun
variants
also bott
: the larva of a botfly
especially
: one infesting the horse
bot
2 of 2 abbreviation1
botanical; botanist; botany
2
bottle
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