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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But integrating chatbots made for adults into toys for kids poses its own array of threats, Padilla told the Union-Tribune.
—Noelle Harff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2026
Per this three-year contract, the system’s 470,000 students and 63,000 faculty and staff across 22 campuses will continue to have access to ChatGPT Edu, billed by the company as a version of the chatbot customized for educational institutions.
—Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026
The measure, which passed as House Bill 1263, focuses on safeguarding chatbots’ interactions with children and teenagers.
—Jon Murray, Denver Post, 29 May 2026
Ohio, one of the nation’s data center destination hot spots, is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states to attract the massive new facilities that power and train artificial intelligence chatbots.
—Marc Levy, Fortune, 29 May 2026
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Noelle Harff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2026
Per this three-year contract, the system’s 470,000 students and 63,000 faculty and staff across 22 campuses will continue to have access to ChatGPT Edu, billed by the company as a version of the chatbot customized for educational institutions.
—Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026
The measure, which passed as House Bill 1263, focuses on safeguarding chatbots’ interactions with children and teenagers.
—Jon Murray, Denver Post, 29 May 2026
Ohio, one of the nation’s data center destination hot spots, is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states to attract the massive new facilities that power and train artificial intelligence chatbots.
—Marc Levy, Fortune, 29 May 2026
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“Chatbot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chatbot. Accessed 5 Jun. 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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