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

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And too much pleasure could be associated with harm, as the chatbot Claude 3 Opus told the researchers during testing. —

Conor Purcell, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2025 Ask your fave chatbot to reframe your frustration into something a bit more … constructive. —

Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025 The chatbot, for obvious reasons, is never going to tell you to do that. —

Lauren Goode, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2025 Social media complaints go unanswered, follow-up emails lack context, and chatbots fail to escalate issues to human agents seamlessly. —

Gary Drenik, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for chatbot