So, bots you say… – The AI guys – Medium

Think of it as a magical black box that understands what you tell it with your daily English (or Spanish, or German, or Mandarin, or whatever) and answers you in the same language, and not in a stream of ones and zeros. It's most likely some sort of state machine or automaton, processing the input it received; and of course is not magic (sorry to break the spell): it's one subset of Artificial Intelligence called Natural Language Processing (or NLP). Well, all of the above use something called Natural Language Processing. The Natural Language Processing is a huge field of study, which I'll cover in detail later in the series, but for now, let's move on.