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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Furthermore, government officials caution that AI chatbots may not be reliable for addressing voting questions, raising concerns about the integrity of election information and inaccuracies. Nizan Geslevich Packin, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024 Similarly, in June, the Reuters Institute carried out an analysis on how several popular chatbots including ChatGPT and generative AI startup Perplexity answered questions about the European Parliament elections. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024 This version of the popular chatbot will let users get the latest information available on the internet. Paolo Confino, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2024 The chatbot became the fastest-growing app ever, capturing 100 million users in two months and kick-starting the AI gold rush in Silicon Valley. Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 1 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for chatbot 

Word History

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 21 Nov. 2024.

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chatbot

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