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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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
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Kylie Robison, The Verge, 21 May 2024
The answers came from an artificial intelligence chatbot.
—Casey Fiesler, The Conversation, 20 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for chatbot
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“Chatbot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chatbot. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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