noun
chatbot
Chatbot (noun) means a computer program designed to chat with people, often through text messages.
noun
1
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)
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Etymology
Formed from chat and -bot, from the earlier chatterbot.
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"chatbot" (noun) means a computer program designed to chat with people, often through text messages.
