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

But the issue has become all the more urgent as questions arise about the mental health effects of AI chatbots and young users. —Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026

And, the blog post states, users might be able to click on those ads and ask further questions—a sort of customer service chatbot within a chatbot. —Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026

OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit AI lab in 2015, and its valuation has swelled to $500 billion since the launch of its ChatGPT chatbot in 2022. —Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2026

By Yazhou Sun, Bloomberg One of OpenAI’s top executives defended the company’s addition of ads to its popular chatbot ChatGPT as a way to democratize access to artificial intelligence. —Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026

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