What is a chatbot?
AnswerA computer program that holds conversations with people
Chatbots respond to typed or spoken messages, simulating a conversation.
Tech · Facts & stats
Bot facts & stats
7 fact-checked facts about bots and robots, each with the reason behind it. 5 more are in today's round and join this page after it closes.
The basics
Robots built to look and move like people are called what?
AnswerHumanoid robots
Humanoid robots have a body shape like a person's, often with a head, arms and legs.
Going deeper
The Czech word 'robota', which inspired 'robot', means what?
AnswerForced labor or drudgery
'Robota' refers to forced or drudging work, fitting the artificial workers in Čapek's play.
What did Alan Turing call his 1950 test of whether a machine can pass as human in conversation?
AnswerThe imitation game
In his 1950 paper Turing described 'the imitation game', now widely known as the Turing test.
Which plain text file do websites use to tell search engine bots which pages to crawl?
Answerrobots.txt
A robots.txt file at a site's root gives crawlers instructions about which paths to visit or skip.
Expert level
Which 1960s MIT program by Joseph Weizenbaum was one of the first chatbots?
AnswerELIZA
ELIZA imitated a therapist by rephrasing users' statements as questions.
Unimate, first used on a General Motors assembly line in 1961, is considered the first what?
AnswerIndustrial robot
Unimate was a robotic arm that handled hot metal die castings, starting the era of factory robots.
Know these cold?Today's round is five questions like these, 20 seconds each. Your streak and level follow you to every arena.Play today's round