Back in the days when I worked in Data Processing (Information Technology in today's parlance) we used the term Daemon which was like a Bot today. Usually it was connected to email servers and handled simple tasks. I have had communications from Daemon which were terse and led me to wonder if Daemon was just a name a human used or was a very clever Bot. Subsequently I have decided it was the former and not the later, but I could be wrong.
On another topic, am I wrong in assuming that Tao Bums is a tip of the hat to Jack Kerouac's "The Dharma Bums"? Or is that some sort of cosmic coinkydink?