More recently, the word "bot" in most people, regardless of how close they are to the Internet, has been associated with "boots", so to speak, an abbreviated form. Today, perhaps, every Web user has come across them. Many already know what they are dealing with, others have seen, but had no idea what kind of animal it is. So what is a bot?
"Bot" is an abbreviation of the word "robot", a special program whose function is to imitate the actions of a living person. Algorithms are executed by bots automatically, or at certain intervals, however, always through the same interfaces that a regular user uses.
Most often, such a program is created to perform monotonous and repetitive operations, alternating with each other at high speed. As a rule, such actions are simply inaccessible to the average person (annoying, boring, long, etc.). In such situations, robots come to the rescue. In addition, working according to a given algorithm, bots do not stray from the course, adhering to clearly laid down rules. From a living person to achieve this, again, is not easy.
Robots have become very famous on the Internet. There are a great many of them.
- Bots in computer games are popular and even quite useful. Players during missions, shootouts, etc. often they don’t realize that they are fighting practically with artificial intelligence. Here, such programs are carefully tuned to the actions of gamers in order to give sharpness to the gameplay. If the bot is executed efficiently, it can “think” and act, focusing on the situation on the screen, playing becomes much more interesting.
- ICQ bot. We will also include bots from other communication programs by default here. What is a bot in Internet messengers (icq, Skype, QIP, etc.)? The variety of such robots is quite large. There are both very useful programs, and typical bots - clogging up the contact list and interfering with their importunity. The first include various services that are ready to provide free jokes, weather forecasts, as well as show the program guide for today, translate text from one language to another, and so on. It all depends on the capabilities of the program. To obtain information, it is enough to write a specific request in the window of such a “user” to receive the treasured information. As a rule, the list of requests and their description is presented in the bots themselves. You can find ASEC numbers on the Internet, most often, they are freely available. Let's move on to a group of annoying bots or the so-called spam bots. Despite serious anti-spam and anti-flood control, the presence of "verification" questions, tricky programs somehow make their way through them. Basically, harmful robots send various offers (often of an intimate nature), the essence of which is to buy something. In addition, users who have only a superficial idea of what a bot is, are faced with types of bots that offer "follow the link and see the photo." Naturally, on the other side of the link - a virus or program that can harm the computer or the informational property of the user.
- Buyer bots. The conventionally named category of programs that participates in the purchase of the best places for concerts, sports and leisure events, flights, etc. In general, places that are very popular. The main customers of these bots are intermediary companies. Having booked all the best places on official sales sites, they offer them on their web resources at higher prices.
- Another type of robot is a web bot. Their main task is to predict and predict changes in the stock market. Developed in the distant 90s of the last century, it is still popular.
The answer to the question "what is a bot" is very diverse, because there are a lot of robots. Some of them are useful, others are not very good. However, you should not be afraid of them, since the human mind can always cope with semi-artificial.