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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When Meituan, China’s dominant lifestyle super app that combines services similar to DoorDash, Yelp, and Groupon into a single platform, launched its Xiaomei AI agent in late 2025, executives internally described it not as a chatbot but as an orchestrator plus execution agent.
—Harvard Business Review, 17 Apr. 2026
For months, xAI has used 27 unpermitted gas turbines — each about the size of a bus — to power the data center used to run the chatbot Grok.
—Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 16 Apr. 2026
If a user opts in, Nano Banana can create personal images based on the user’s private Google Photos as opposed to needing images to be manually uploaded to the chatbot.
—Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
Meanwhile, researchers at TU Dresden have argued in a recent paper that AI chatbots performing therapy-like functions should be regulated as medical devices.
—Marc Augustin, STAT, 16 Apr. 2026
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Harvard Business Review, 17 Apr. 2026
For months, xAI has used 27 unpermitted gas turbines — each about the size of a bus — to power the data center used to run the chatbot Grok.
—Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 16 Apr. 2026
If a user opts in, Nano Banana can create personal images based on the user’s private Google Photos as opposed to needing images to be manually uploaded to the chatbot.
—Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
Meanwhile, researchers at TU Dresden have argued in a recent paper that AI chatbots performing therapy-like functions should be regulated as medical devices.
—Marc Augustin, STAT, 16 Apr. 2026
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“Chatbot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chatbot. Accessed 19 Apr. 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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