noun A computer program designed to chat with people, often through text messages.
- The chatbot was quite simple yet informative.
- Before ChatGPT distorted Eugene Torres’s sense of reality and almost killed him, he said, the artificial intelligence chatbot had been a helpful, timesaving tool.
— Kashmir Hill, They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling (2025)
- Generative AI won’t be the end of employment, we are told, only “boring work” – with chatbots helpfully doing all the soul-destroying, repetitive tasks and humans merely supervising them.
— Naomi Klein, AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are (2023)
