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
Marc SaltzmanExamples of chatbot in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Multimodal conversational chatbots seem to be the next frontier for AI, with multiple advancements announced at Google I/O and OpenAI releasing GPT-4o, so Grok lacking multimodal capabilities has put it behind the curve — until now.
—Kylie Robison, The Verge, 21 May 2024
The answers came from an artificial intelligence chatbot.
—Casey Fiesler, The Conversation, 20 May 2024
In its Sunday night blog post, OpenAI said that chatbot was developed with five voices that were produced after working closely with voice and screen actors.
—Bobby Allyn, NPR, 20 May 2024
Anthropic launches generative AI chatbot in Europe.
—John Kell, Fortune, 15 May 2024
Related Content OpenAI has delayed its chatbot store to next year, following the Sam Altman drama
OpenAI is announcing ChatGPT updates today.
—Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 13 May 2024
Headlines about wrongful arrests based on facial recognition—or chatbots not properly protecting customer data via encryption—highlight the need for holistic AI governance within aviation.
—Brian Tossan, Fortune, 9 May 2024
Last month, Baidu CEO Robin Li claimed its chatbot had 200 million users.
—Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 9 May 2024
Alongside the report, Microsoft also announced advances to its Copilot tool, including an autocomplete function that is meant to help people prompt the chatbot to receive better output.
—Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 8 May 2024
Kylie Robison, The Verge, 21 May 2024
The answers came from an artificial intelligence chatbot.
—Casey Fiesler, The Conversation, 20 May 2024
In its Sunday night blog post, OpenAI said that chatbot was developed with five voices that were produced after working closely with voice and screen actors.
—Bobby Allyn, NPR, 20 May 2024
Anthropic launches generative AI chatbot in Europe.
—John Kell, Fortune, 15 May 2024
Related Content OpenAI has delayed its chatbot store to next year, following the Sam Altman drama
OpenAI is announcing ChatGPT updates today.
—Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 13 May 2024
Headlines about wrongful arrests based on facial recognition—or chatbots not properly protecting customer data via encryption—highlight the need for holistic AI governance within aviation.
—Brian Tossan, Fortune, 9 May 2024
Last month, Baidu CEO Robin Li claimed its chatbot had 200 million users.
—Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 9 May 2024
Alongside the report, Microsoft also announced advances to its Copilot tool, including an autocomplete function that is meant to help people prompt the chatbot to receive better output.
—Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 8 May 2024
These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'chatbot.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Articles Related to chatbot
Dictionary Entries Near chatbot
Cite this Entry
“Chatbot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chatbot. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share