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softbot

noun

Etymology

From software + -bot.

  1. derived from *semptio-✻
  2. inherited from *samft(ī)✻
  3. inherited from sōfte
  4. inherited from softe
  5. formed as software — “soft + -ware”
  6. suffixed as softbot — “software + bot”

Definitions

  1. A computer program that acts on behalf of a user or another program.

    • The Internet Softbot (software robot) is a fully implemented AI agent developed at the University of Washington. […] For example, the softbot but use netfind to determine David McAllester's email address.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for softbot. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA