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 In piloting the technology, Walmart said, consumers reported higher rates of satisfaction with their interactions with the chatbot. —

Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 18 Oct. 2024 To their eyes, is there no difference between an actual woman and a female-identifying chatbot? —

Fatemeh Fannizadeh, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024 An upcoming revision to X’s terms of service will make a recent plot twist at Elon Musk’s social platform a black-and-white contractual reality: Your posts can officially serve as food for X’s Grok chatbot and any other AI systems that X might create in the future. —

Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 18 Oct. 2024 OpenAI said Johansson’s voice was not used for the chatbot but took it down anyway. —

Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for chatbot

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