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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
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: 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
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botanical; botanist; botany
2
bottle
3
bottom
4
bought
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Pia Singh, CNBC, 18 Jan. 2025
Last year, the company tried to get ahead of the bots by implementing a pre-sale registration system to verify buyers were real people.
—Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2025
There is potential for a flood of inauthentic accounts – AI bots – that exploit algorithmic and human vulnerabilities to monetize false and harmful content.
—Anjana Susarla, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2025
The lawsuit also doubles down on Drake’s previous claim that UMG paid third parties to promote the song and to fake streams with bots on Spotify.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Investors are looking for another way to play AI after huge runs in Nvidia and the other stocks powering and producing digital bots like ChatGPT.
—Pia Singh, CNBC, 18 Jan. 2025
Last year, the company tried to get ahead of the bots by implementing a pre-sale registration system to verify buyers were real people.
—Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2025
There is potential for a flood of inauthentic accounts – AI bots – that exploit algorithmic and human vulnerabilities to monetize false and harmful content.
—Anjana Susarla, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2025
The lawsuit also doubles down on Drake’s previous claim that UMG paid third parties to promote the song and to fake streams with bots on Spotify.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Bot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bot. Accessed 26 Jan. 2025.
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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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