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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Some have caught students using AI chatbots to write their essays, others are anxious that AI will curb critical thinking in their classrooms and some are threatened the tools could replace their teaching jobs.
—Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2025
The upgrades being pushed out for AI chatbots aren’t slowing down, and one of the latest improvements added to Google Gemini is an ability for the AI to remember previous conversations.
—David Nield, Popular Science, 20 Feb. 2025
The extent to which the chatbot has been used by DOGE in its extensive cost-cutting measures remains unclear.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
The losses, the biggest drop in US stock market history, were blamed on the Chinese AI chatbot’s use of lower-cost chips and that the free app uses less data at a fraction of the cost of its competitors language assistants.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 17 Feb. 2025
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Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2025
The upgrades being pushed out for AI chatbots aren’t slowing down, and one of the latest improvements added to Google Gemini is an ability for the AI to remember previous conversations.
—David Nield, Popular Science, 20 Feb. 2025
The extent to which the chatbot has been used by DOGE in its extensive cost-cutting measures remains unclear.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
The losses, the biggest drop in US stock market history, were blamed on the Chinese AI chatbot’s use of lower-cost chips and that the free app uses less data at a fraction of the cost of its competitors language assistants.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 17 Feb. 2025
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“Chatbot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chatbot. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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