What is "chatbot"

n. (context computer science English) A computer program that holds conversations through a chat room.

Chatbot may mean:

• Chatterbot, a chatter robot is a type of conversational agent, a computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation with one or more human users via auditory or textual methods.
• Internet Relay Chat bot, a set of scripts or an independent program that connects to Internet Relay Chat as a client, and so appears to other IRC users as another user.