Dawn of AI: Are Chat Bots Ready for Prime Time

Extreme developments in the field of artificial intelligence have become an integral part of the technology industry. AI has helped the world reach a point where continuous improvements have resulted in making life easier for humans. "A chatbot is an artificially intelligent software program that uses natural language processing to simulate intelligent conversation with end users via auditory or textual methods".Chat Bots date as far back as 1960's and this was the time when the computer world idealized such machines which could be used to impersonate humans in real-time, sufficiently well that the reviewer was unable to distinguish, whether the conversation was between real humans themselves or between the program and a real human. Joseph Weizenbaum's, a professor at MIT developed a program named ELIZA, published in 1966. ELIZA operated in a unique way, as it focused on the recognition of cue words or phrases in the input.