chatbot

See also: Chatbot

English

Alternative forms

• chat bot

Etymology

From chat +‎ -bot, from earlier chatterbot.

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃætbɑt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

chatbot (plural chatbots)

1. (Internet, artificial intelligence) A computer program that holds conversations through a chat room.

   The chatbot was quite simple yet informative.

   • 2000, Handbook on Electronic Commerce‎^[1], Springer, →ISBN, page 59:

     To deal with a large number of typical queries, “chatbots” technology should be considered. A chatbot can be defined as an intelligent evolution of email. The chatbot categorizes messages on the fly and provides answers to questions accordingly. As such, it can be used as a customer support tool.

   • 2012, Brian Christian, The Most Human Human […] , Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 29:

     Wolfram Alpha researcher and chatbot author Robert Lockhart describes the chatbot community as being split between two competing approaches, what he calls “pure semantics” and “pure empiricism.”

   • 2015, John Markoff, Machines of Loving Grace […] , New York: Ecco Press, →ISBN, page 221:

     Chatbot technology, of course, dates back to Weizenbaum’s early experiments with his Eliza program.

   • 2023 January 16, Kalley Huang, “Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Mr. Aumann confronted his student over whether he had written the essay himself. The student confessed to using ChatGPT, a chatbot that delivers information, explains concepts and generates ideas in simple sentences — and, in this case, had written the paper.

   • 2023 May 8, Naomi Klein, “AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are”, in The Guardian‎^[3], →ISSN:

     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.

   • 2025 June 13, Kashmir Hill, “They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN:

     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.

   • 2025 July 16, Marcus Mendes, “Grok may be breaking App Store rules with sexualized AI chatbots, and that’s not the only problem”, in 9 to 5 Mac‎^[5]:

     Last year, a 14-year-old boy died by suicide after falling in love with a chatbot from Character.AI. The last thing he did was have a conversation with an AI avatar that, possibly failing to recognize the severity of the situation, reportedly encouraged him to go through with his plan to “join her”.

Derived terms

• chatbot psychosis

Translations

program that holds conversations

• Bulgarian: чатбот m (čatbot)
• Catalan: bot conversacional m, xatbot m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 傾偈機械人 / 倾偈机械人 (king¹ gai² gei¹ haai⁶ jan⁴)

  Mandarin: 聊天機器人 / 聊天机器人 (liáotiānjīqìrén)

• Dutch: chatbot (nl) m
• Finnish: keskustelubotti
• French: chatbot (fr) f, dialogueur (fr) m
• Georgian: სასაუბრო ბოტი (sasaubro boṭi), ჩატბოტი (čaṭboṭi)
• German: Chatbot (de) m
• Greek: κειμενογεννήτρια f (keimenogennítria)
• Hungarian: csevegőrobot (hu)
• Irish: róbat comhrá m
• Japanese: チャットボット (ja) (chattobotto)
• Korean: 챗봇 (ko) (chaetbot)
• Māori: karekōrero
• Portuguese: chatbot m
• Russian: чат-бо́т (ru) m (čat-bót)
• Spanish: bot conversacional m, chatbot (es) m
• Swedish: chattrobot (sv) c, dialogrobot c
• Ukrainian: чат-бо́т m (čat-bót)
• Welsh: sgyrsfot m

See also

• infobot

Dutch

Etymology

From English chatbot; equivalent to chatten +‎ bot.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

chatbot m (plural chatbots or chatbotten, diminutive chatbotje n)

1. chatbot

Related terms

• voicebot

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English chatbot.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃa.t͡ʃiˈbɔ.t͡ʃi/, /ʃat͡ʃˈbɔt͡ʃ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐtˈbɔt/ [ʃɐtˈβɔt]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐtˈbɔt/ [ʃɐtˈβɔt]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɐtˈbɔt/ [t͡ʃɐtˈβɔt]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐtˈbɔt/

• Rhymes: -ɔtʃi, -ɔt
• Hyphenation: chat‧bot

Noun

chatbot m (plural chatbots)

1. chatbot

Further reading

• “chatbot”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English chatbot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃadˈbot/ [t͡ʃað̞ˈβ̞ot̪]
• Rhymes: -ot
• Syllabification: chat‧bot

Noun

chatbot m (plural chatbots)

1. chatbot