Bots Are All About Bots And More Bots

Qolfera | Published On: March 03, 2018

Its been several days now that I am disposed in to bots, today with an in-depth shading how this feigned intelligent software impact us, humans. Looking figuratively, as we're reaching the bottom pit for these bots, in harnessing to monetize it and make a good living, precisely not the slaughterbots.

In furtherance of, before narrowing down bots, 'apps' : is a short word of software applications either present in your desktop, smartphones, on web-space, which now gone into morphing stages like web based email, on different social media platforms, the Wikipedia, and in online auctions.

Software applications, considered low-level programs interacting  with end-user, us, in very basic level of commands - an axiom to now, bots.

Software based robots shortened to bots, de rigueur, most talked behind all doors of computer programmers, software engineers, in rejoin to improve one's life, and get things done easier, faster, smooth, more precised, in elimination of human error as possible nor involvement of an emotion. Don't get confused with mechanical type of robotics that sometimes or oftenly use 'robo' for example this 'Robo Bee'

Space and time are our current limitations, consume us little by little till we get aged and weak however bots can stay infinitely, with improving intelligence, and enhanced set of skills.

"Unhappy Rogue Twitter Bots" | Here

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Software Bots can be found on:

1. Social media platforms: we noted a glimpse about this from our articles: "Unhappy Rogue Twitter Bots," and how soon with all these bots will take away our corporate jobs in "Things To Be Acquainted In Contact Centers," - the Social Bots are type of Chatter Bot, employed on different social media platforms either on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter, so on and so forth.

Social Bots like these, with monthly fee subscriptions, MonsterSocial, Dominator House, Following-Like, Cetagram Bot, or sticking alone with your own social media accounts.

Advantages of using social bots, the grand-price will  always go to the bot-developer, however if your a business minded person and always want to get on top, looking for an exposure of your marketing - then its a good way to use this Social Bot - to get more followers, loyal subscribers, sell more items.

One of the cons about these socbots is for spreading fake news such as these considered pests the 'Russian bots / online trolls.'

2. Cryptocurrency-exchanges: Trading Bots, have the abilities to monitor the crypto-market, can notify you when your asset gets unusual on market action. Per digital currencies, like bitcoins, volatility is always a concern, there is a great need for enthusiast of round-the-clock watcher, which only these bots can be equipped; we have found some Trading Bots online such as CryptoPing, BTCRobot, Gekko, CryptoTrader, ZenBot, TradeWave, and HaasBot.

3. Online spamming and scamming: benevolently, what is the difference between these two words? Spamming is the unsolicited or unwanted form of advertising, finding this tons of unwanted messages in your email inbox even on automated robo-calls, either its on behalf of a political party or a telemarketing campaign, that always wake you up in the middle of the night; whilst scamming is intended for fraudulent, phishing activities to steal your money, SSNs, and credit card info.

Now what are the bots involved to it?

Spambots: Robocalls - how to stop it, here. With the heroic story of Aaron Foss, year 2013, with the creation of his free 'NomoRobo', that gives him the cash prize of US$25,000 from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), enabling to find a way of blocking spammers whilst still allowing legitimate and emergency alert related calls.

You can check Ivan Kristianto's 436, lists of Spam Bots.

Scam Bots such as  Roblox, BoxBots - using to enticed you with using a bold, bleeding, and shouting taglines like FREE, BIG SAVE, BIG DISCOUNTS, NOW OR NEVER, ONLY 99, and among other treacherous-trick.

4. Online polling: Vote Bots, are maliciously used to vote automatically, the goal is to heavily influenced the result of the polling as to what the story , released by wired, lies in Donald's Trump election campaign using these Vote Bots, for thousandths of hundredths tagging a single hashtags to make it loud throughout in Twitter platform, for a list of Vote Bots from Steem Center.

Giving you other example of Vote Bot cons, back in 2009, YouTube usually use 'stars' to grade its rating how satisfied end-users was - also why YouTube decided to remove the 'stars' due to its vulnerabilities from this Vote Bot.

5. Online video gaming: Game Bots, basically exploited by online gamers' to cheat, in beating other players in no sweat. Game Bots are use to automate a repetitive and tedious task, for instance in farming.

6. Sports betting: also on other online betting such as in poker, casino, and lottery; there is this revile Gambling Bots, reason why this online betting have a hard time to passed, the filtration phases, in huge and well developed countries like in US, Canada, and UK because Gambling Bots can manipulate all this online betting games.

7. Adult Bots: making it more sound clean we call it Adult Bots. Who expect that this will come along in our era to a stage that its acceptable to many, would you think this is the awaited therapy, an answer in lowering down  the alarming cases of suicide, rape, pedophiles, and incest cases?

8. Farm crops: using Garden / Farm Bots which now can plant real crops, since many of us moved in the city to make a corporate jobs, the vacated farmlands left however with these bots it can help us now to bolster, calling us to return, and plant crops to have food to eat on the table, not bots. This is only an imagination before in virtual world of Farmville app on Facebook, back in 2009, only years passed, now it can be a real farming with planting Bots. Presently we found Rory Aronson and Andrew Frueh, they designed these bots, specialized on gardening innovations.

9. Killing machines: the Slaughter Bots on drones, feared by many in US creating a feeling of dystopia, to land on wrong hands of the wrong person or entities.

10. Artiste en Technologie Visuelle: Drawing Bot, launched by Microsoft early this January of 2018, this type of automated drawing bot can produce high resolution images, pixel by pixels in adaptation with machine learning modalities thru only text commands. This can compete with human enthusiasts in photography.

11. Bots with passion on music: known as the Music Bots, no more elaboration, it simply programmed for music lovers particular in genre, would be an ad hoc to maximize your music experience. Most of these bots present on the web are based on discord software, a proprietary freeware.

12. Intelligent house guard: a type of home Security Bot we found 'momo' - a stand alone security system for smart homes, integrated with machine learning and deep learning technologies that can respond on different digital devices to communicate with the owner it can even send you messages thru Facebook. It synergistically work as well with other home related AIs such as Amazons' Echo or Googles' Home.

13. Energy cost saving efficiency: with this Solar Bot, this can managed things that human strength cannot withstand in terms of labor, monitoring, even on weather forecasting, also can send you a bug report for any solar panel that predicted to fail; for the mean time it is offered for industrial purposes, solar power plants.

Bot | Facts:
Magic 8 ball - created by Mattel in 1950, a novelty toy, a simple 'fortune teller' Chatter Bot.

Caption Bot - owned by Microsoft, can aide people with visual impairments, giving you its descriptions basing it only from the photo presented.

Xiaoice - released on December 2016, a weather forecaster chatbot, from Microsoft, can relay news events on Chinese live program, 'Morning News', with female voice Chat Bot able to achieved a 4.32 in scaling against natural human voice of 4.76, this bot is integrated with text-to-speech and deep learning technologies - that can show an emotion in her voice, interpret visual images, and can continuously learn. Xiaoice can be met on Weibo, China's Twitter version.

CES or Consumer Electronics Show - established on 1967 by Consumer Technology Association (CTA), is a digital trade organization with its renowned standards for consumer electronics industry in the United States, presently, with 2,200 companies as a members. It has a broad spectrum of awards programs for industry leaders, inventors, products, and technologies. The recent CES, 2018, were attended by huge companies such as Google, Amazon, and Nvidia.

Loebner Prize - launched in 1990 by Hugh Loebner, an annually held competition with an objective to recognized, to prized the artificial intelligence that closest to human; have so-called a one-time-only prizes that never yet achieved: a US$25,000 and US$100,000 rewards. Currently none yet outranked, for three consecutive years now, the famous Chat Bot, 'Mitsuku,' created by Pandora Bots, to chat with Mitsuku you must have a logged in Facebook account.

Warning: even this intelligent chatter bot or any type of bots, in any particular online websites, not to give your personal details like date-of-birth or personal location address, its to safeguard your identity from being stolen. Never, ok.

However if your looking for a list of Chat Bots.

Non-Player Characters (NPCs), can be found on all online games, even on consoles, are intelligently programmed , like mini-bots, with various grading scale of codes on a different levels, why NPCs cannot be defeated easily if the level of your character, even on group attack, doesn't match with your opponent.

Darvin AIs & MasterofCode - are online business selling their bots, concentrated on intelligent chatter bots.

Zombies on internet - word 'zombie' is short for botnet herder or bot herder, with a human behind all the manipulations that control, maintaining the herds of software bot machines - programmed to attack and infect other machines, it has the ability to dig deeper, to penetrate those unsecured protocols like internet relay chat (IRC) and peer-to-peer (P2P) networking in aiding of a command-and-control server. Typically used by cyber-criminals, so always be careful of different kinds of enticement online; best example are online job-seekers to avoid this stop clicking random links, instead to make it atleast safe for your computer - by typing manually the letters or subject to a different browser.

For instance this famous P2P botnet, back in year 2012 until 2014, named Gameover ZeuS also called as ZBot, a type of trojan horse malware which operated by a cybercriminal, under the persons' name Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev which until now still at large; that have caused 100 million dollar losses for phishing bank accounts thru online.

Not only software based-bots, now time is near in our age where each household will have their own mechanical bots that can perform countless task from a single bots. Do you have some bargains or an acquiescence reach me at qolfera@gmail.com.

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