What is an AI Chatbot?
An AI Chatbot is a type of software that lets you query information by typing a sentence into a text box that is processed by a large language model instead of traditional algorithms. Being powered by "AI" in this sense means just being powered by an LLM.
LLM's allow AI chatbots to respond to all sorts of user queries, even those that the developers wouldn't have predicted or expected to happen. However, LLM's are also prone to answering incorrectly and often come with warning labels. Fundamentally, any "AI" powered by an LLM doesn't have any sort of formal reasoning and is merely a complicated autocomplete that predicts what would a person answer if they were asked what you asked the chatbot based on immense amounts of text that were used to train its AI model.
One specific architecture of LLM is called GPT, which is the basis of ChatGPT, an AI chatbot.
