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
Dalvin BrownThe challenge is to create a chatbot that can converse coherently and engagingly with humans on popular topics for 20 minutes.—Marc Saltzman
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Designing For Agentic Connectivity, Not Just APIs The next wave won’t just be chatbots for customers.
—Shuchi Agrawal, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
That stems from SpaceX having formally acquired Musk’s company xAI earlier this year—the SpaceXAI division now oversees the Grok AI models and the associated Grok chatbot previously developed by xAI.
—Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 21 May 2026
Unlike earlier waves of computing infrastructure focused primarily on chatbot systems, Alibaba’s latest hardware strategy centers on autonomous software agents capable of carrying out extended, multi-step operations with limited supervision.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026
The boom in the market was touched off by the overnight success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which showed that chatbots could answer users’ questions in conversational fashion, threatening to make Google’s list of links to websites obsolete.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 May 2026
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Shuchi Agrawal, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
That stems from SpaceX having formally acquired Musk’s company xAI earlier this year—the SpaceXAI division now oversees the Grok AI models and the associated Grok chatbot previously developed by xAI.
—Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 21 May 2026
Unlike earlier waves of computing infrastructure focused primarily on chatbot systems, Alibaba’s latest hardware strategy centers on autonomous software agents capable of carrying out extended, multi-step operations with limited supervision.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026
The boom in the market was touched off by the overnight success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which showed that chatbots could answer users’ questions in conversational fashion, threatening to make Google’s list of links to websites obsolete.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 May 2026
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“Chatbot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chatbot. Accessed 27 May. 2026.
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chatbot
noun
chat·bot
ˈchat-ˌbät
: a bot that is designed to converse with human beings
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