chatbot

noun

chat·​bot ˈchat-ˌbät 

plural chatbots

: a bot (see bot entry 1 sense 3) that is designed to converse with human beings

Chatbots … have been around for years, mostly to answer generic questions over the phone or on a website.

—Dalvin Brown

The challenge is to create a chatbot that can converse coherently and engagingly with humans on popular topics for 20 minutes.

—Marc Saltzman

Examples of chatbot in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The launch extends a pattern of Google debuting new AI features that immediately have issues after their rollout—the Bard chatbot and its successor, Gemini, similarly ran into accuracy problems. —John Kell, Fortune, 29 May 2024

The OpenAI competitor, which developed its own chatbot, Grok, announced its Series B funding round Sunday, which has pushed the company to a $24 billion valuation. —Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 28 May 2024

Air Canada argued in its defense that it cannot be held liable for information provided by one of its agents, servants or representatives — including a chatbot. —David Streitfeld, New York Times, 28 May 2024

The answers came from an artificial intelligence chatbot. —Casey Fiesler, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2024

Word History

Etymology

chat entry 1 + bot entry 1

First Known Use

1994, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

chatbot

noun

chat·​bot

ˈchat-ˌbät

: a bot that is designed to converse with human beings