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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Apple is reportedly considering using Anthropic or OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models to power its Siri chatbot, in a potential acknowledgment that its AI progress has stalled.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 1 July 2025
Assessing the system-instruction vulnerabilities of large language models to malicious conversion into health disinformation chatbots.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
Developers feed their chatbot models on a torrent of material, much of it scraped from the web — everything from distinguished literary works to random babbling — as well as collections holding millions of books, articles, scientific papers and the like, some of it copyrighted.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
Apple and Google have been asked to consider banning the artificial intelligence chatbot app DeepSeek from their respective app stores in Germany.
—James Peckham, PC Magazine, 27 June 2025
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Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 1 July 2025
Assessing the system-instruction vulnerabilities of large language models to malicious conversion into health disinformation chatbots.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
Developers feed their chatbot models on a torrent of material, much of it scraped from the web — everything from distinguished literary works to random babbling — as well as collections holding millions of books, articles, scientific papers and the like, some of it copyrighted.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
Apple and Google have been asked to consider banning the artificial intelligence chatbot app DeepSeek from their respective app stores in Germany.
—James Peckham, PC Magazine, 27 June 2025
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“Chatbot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chatbot. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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