chatbot

noun

chat·​bot ˈchat-ˌbät How to pronounce chatbot (audio)
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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Hark's innovative approach integrates voice of the customer (VoC) feedback into the customer journey, moving beyond static surveys and impersonal chatbots. Andrea Wasserman, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025 Today the company announced that its researchers had made a breakthrough in probing how large language models, like the one that powers Anthropic's Claude chatbot, formulate responses. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2025 While other chatbots can generate up to eight objects for an image, GPT-4o can produce up to 20, according to OpenAI. Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025 Following the lawsuit, OpenAI made changes so that its chatbot doesn’t provide verbatim copies of articles. Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for chatbot

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First Known Use

1994, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of chatbot was in 1994

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“Chatbot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chatbot. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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chatbot

noun
chat·​bot
ˈchat-ˌbät
: a bot that is designed to converse with human beings
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