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{{Short description|Type of internet bot that collects specific information}} | |||
A '''knowbot''' is a kind of [[Internet bot|bot]] that automatically collects certain specified information from [[web sites]]. | A '''knowbot''' is a kind of [[Internet bot|bot]] that automatically collects certain specified information from [[web sites]]. | ||
KNOWBOT is the acronym for Knowledge-Based Object Technology. This term, used as early as 1988<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/kahn-cerf-88.pdf|title=THE DIGITAL LIBRARY PROJECT VOLUME 1: The World of Knowbots (DRAFT) - An open architecture for a digital library system and a plan for its development}}</ref> and known to have been implemented by December 1989 at the latest<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Internet-documents/matrix/services/KIS-id.txt |title= | KNOWBOT is the acronym for Knowledge-Based Object Technology. This term, used as early as 1988<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/kahn-cerf-88.pdf|title=THE DIGITAL LIBRARY PROJECT VOLUME 1: The World of Knowbots (DRAFT) - An open architecture for a digital library system and a plan for its development}}</ref> and known to have been implemented by December 1989 at the latest<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Internet-documents/matrix/services/KIS-id.txt |title=The Knowbot Information Service |website=FTP.Sunet.SE |last=Bucknell |first=R. Droms |publication-date=December 1989 |access-date=2015-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084329/http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Internet-documents/matrix/services/KIS-id.txt |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> describes computer-based objects developed for collecting and storing specific information, to use that information to accomplish a particular task, and to enable sharing that information with other objects or processes. An early use of knowbots was to provide a computerized assistant to users to complete redundant detailed tasks without a need to train the user in computer technology. | ||
== Contemporary usage == | |||
{{As of|2026}}, the Mike Hudson Foundation, a UK nonprofit, uses Knowbot as the name of its [[Large language model|LLM]]-based website search and question-answering service for research-oriented nonprofit organisations. The Royal Statistical Society's ''Real World Data Science'' described the foundation's Knowbot service as an LLM-powered tool designed to make complex websites more accessible. Organisations including the British Academy, RUSI and ZSL's SPOTT project have described deployments of the foundation's Knowbot service for answering visitor questions using their own website content. ZSL's SPOTT project describes the foundation as providing free use of AI tools and pro bono advice to research-oriented nonprofits.<ref>{{cite web |last=Flynn |first=Annie |title=AI for Social Good: Interview with the Founder of Mike Hudson Foundation |website=Real World Data Science |publisher=Royal Statistical Society |date=27 November 2025 |url=https://realworlddatascience.net/foundation-frontiers/posts/2025/11/27/MHF-interview.html |access-date=5 June 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260605085707/https://realworlddatascience.net/foundation-frontiers/posts/2025/11/27/MHF-interview.html |archive-date=5 June 2026 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Knowbot |website=The British Academy |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/schemes/guidance-applicants/knowbot/ |access-date=5 June 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260605085837/https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/schemes/guidance-applicants/knowbot/ |archive-date=5 June 2026 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=About Knowbot |website=Royal United Services Institute |url=https://www.rusi.org/about-knowbot |access-date=5 June 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260605090411/https://www.rusi.org/about-knowbot |archive-date=5 June 2026 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SPOTT & Mike Hudson Foundation Announce AI Collaboration |website=SPOTT |date=18 April 2025 |url=https://www.spott.org/news/spott-ai-collaboration-knowbot-longseek/ |access-date=5 June 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260227130802/https://www.spott.org/news/spott-ai-collaboration-knowbot-longseek/ |archive-date=27 February 2026 |url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
Latest revision as of 10:26, 6 July 2026
A knowbot is a kind of bot that automatically collects certain specified information from web sites.
KNOWBOT is the acronym for Knowledge-Based Object Technology. This term, used as early as 1988[1] and known to have been implemented by December 1989 at the latest[2] describes computer-based objects developed for collecting and storing specific information, to use that information to accomplish a particular task, and to enable sharing that information with other objects or processes. An early use of knowbots was to provide a computerized assistant to users to complete redundant detailed tasks without a need to train the user in computer technology.
Contemporary usage
As of 2026[update]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., the Mike Hudson Foundation, a UK nonprofit, uses Knowbot as the name of its LLM-based website search and question-answering service for research-oriented nonprofit organisations. The Royal Statistical Society's Real World Data Science described the foundation's Knowbot service as an LLM-powered tool designed to make complex websites more accessible. Organisations including the British Academy, RUSI and ZSL's SPOTT project have described deployments of the foundation's Knowbot service for answering visitor questions using their own website content. ZSL's SPOTT project describes the foundation as providing free use of AI tools and pro bono advice to research-oriented nonprofits.[3][4][5][6]
See also
- Knowbot Information Service
- Web crawler, a program that visits Web sites and gathers information according to some generalized criteria (as opposed to user-specified criteria) and subsequently indexes it[7]
References
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