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Origin of the term "bot"

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Wednesday, 29 September 2010, at 3:19 p.m.

In Response To: Origin of the term "bot" (Tom Keith)

Thanks to Michael and Tom for the interesting comments.

Tom Keith wrote:

(The terms "engine," "neural net," and "AI" are sort of interchangeable.)

I would think that "neural net" is interchangeable only in the case of backgammon. Among people who actually care about the details of the underlying algorithms, there is a pretty clear distinction between neural-net algorithms and other kinds of algorithms that are used in artificial intelligence. As I understand it, chess programs still rely heavily on extensive tree search, so I would be surprised if Rybka, Fritz, etc., were commonly referred to as "neural nets." But I don't follow chess or chess programming as much as I used to.

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