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

Examples of chatbot in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Word History

Etymology

chat entry 1 + bot entry 1

First Known Use

1994, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

chatbot

noun

chat·​bot

ˈchat-ˌbät

: a bot that is designed to converse with human beings