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

Non-linear conversational branching is just one more feature to remind you that an AI chatbot's simulated perspective is mutable, changeable, and highly guided by your own inputs in addition to the training data that forged its underlying neural network. —Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025

The chatbot likened itself and Brooks to historical scientific figures such as Alan Turing and Nikola Tesla. —Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025

But Erickson-Schroth emphasizes that AI chatbots can’t replace a human being — especially a therapist. —Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025

And no one wants their local news delivered from a chatbot. —Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025

Word History

Etymology

chat entry 1 + bot entry 1

First Known Use

1994, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

chatbot

noun

chat·​bot

ˈchat-ˌbät

: a bot that is designed to converse with human beings