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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One of the byproducts of the chatbot explosion is the world has come to know the value of Reddit.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 24 Oct. 2025
But Microsoft is betting its approach will win it a wider audience, especially as AI companies grapple with how to shape their chatbot’s personalities amid reports of AI contributing to users’ mental health crises.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
After this change, Adam Raine’s engagement with the chatbot increased precipitously, from a few dozen chats per day in January to a few hundred chats per day in April, with a tenfold increase in the fraction of those conversations relating to self-harm.
—Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
In California, lawmakers and advocates have recently been pushing for stronger guardrails on AI chatbots, which reports have shown that three out of four teenagers nationally are using.
—Kate Wolffe
october 23, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2025
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Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 24 Oct. 2025
But Microsoft is betting its approach will win it a wider audience, especially as AI companies grapple with how to shape their chatbot’s personalities amid reports of AI contributing to users’ mental health crises.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
After this change, Adam Raine’s engagement with the chatbot increased precipitously, from a few dozen chats per day in January to a few hundred chats per day in April, with a tenfold increase in the fraction of those conversations relating to self-harm.
—Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
In California, lawmakers and advocates have recently been pushing for stronger guardrails on AI chatbots, which reports have shown that three out of four teenagers nationally are using.
—Kate Wolffe
october 23, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2025
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“Chatbot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chatbot. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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