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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The tech is powering everything from customer service chatbots, coding assistants, and translation applications, to drug discovery, engineering design, and complex business processes. Dade Hayes, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024 Baidu has promoted its Ernie chatbot as a local alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which isn’t available in China. Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2024 Google would also be barred from preferencing its search engine through its other products, such as Android, YouTube or its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Gemini. Julia Shapero, The Hill, 21 Nov. 2024 It’s been more than 700 days since OpenAI debuted its now buzzy chatbot ChatGPT, unofficially ushering in the AI era and a race by businesses to capitalize on it. John Kell, Fortune, 20 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 30 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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