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The presence of artificial intelligence (AI) has profoundly influenced the lifestyles and daily interactions of human beings. It has facilitated the development of sophisticated applications and devices capable of performing various tasks. A typical example of such a development is the AI-powered chatbot which uses the so-called Natural Language Processing (NLP) model to communicate with humans as well as other chatbots, often termed “bot-to-bot” communication (Adamopoulou and Moussiades 2020). By definition, a chatbot is a computer program developed to converse with a human user, especially over the Internet, to offer various types of assistance within a digital platform.
The concept of AI chatbots can be traced back to the 1950s when Alan Turing (1912–1954), an eminent British mathematician, logician, and computer scientist, advocated for the discussion of the question “Can machines think?” in his paper entitled “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” published by the...
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Sol, K., Heng, K. (2024). AI-Powered Chatbots as Personalized Academic Writing Assistants for Non-Native English Speakers. In: Peters, M.A., Heraud, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Innovation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2262-4_313-1
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