Un bot de charla o bot conversacional es un programa que simula mantener una conversación con una persona. Habitualmente, la conversación se establece a través de un teclado, aunque también hay modelos que disponen de una interfaz de usuario multimedia.
A chatbot (or chatterbot, or chat bot) is a computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation with one or more human users via auditory or textual methods. Traditionally, the aim of such simulation has been to fool the user into thinking that the program’s output has been produced by a human (the Turing test). Programs playing this role are sometimes referred to as Artificial Conversational Entities, talk bots or chatterboxes. More recently, however, chatbot-like methods have been used for practical purposes such as online help, personalised service, or information acquisition, in which case the program is functioning as a type of conversational agent.
