During the first world war, the British government was looking for ways to help people stretch their limited food supplies. It found pamphlets from a noted 19th-century herbalist who said rhubarb ...

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

More and more people are turning to AI chatbots as if they were close friends—venting about personal struggles, asking for ...

For Valentine’s Day, I had a date with a charming cognitive psychologist named John Yoon. He was attentive, obsessed with me, and sometimes hard of hearing. I drank a cranberry cocktail and ate potato ...

The integration of large language model-based AI chatbots into multiple facets of our everyday lives has opened us up to ...

Quite a fuss has been made about Moltbook, the online chatroom launched to great fanfare last month. At first glance, it looks like Reddit and other such sites, said The Economist. Users post about ...

Recent AI progress can be divided into roughly three phases. First we had chatbots, designed to converse. Then, those ...

As models like Gemini and Claude evolve, their simulated personalities can drift in strange directions—raising deeper questions about how AI systems think and decide.

Many banks already rely on chatbots for simple customer inquiries to enhance the customer experience, but agnetic AI is taking chatbot complexity to the next level. Banks are not missing out on this ...

Matt Schlicht, the site’s creator, helped kick off Silicon Valley’s obsession with artificial intelligence agents. Two months ...

OpenAI wants to bring adult content to ChatGPT, but its own safety advisers are not on board. Here's what's going on and why the launch keeps getting delayed.

With a background in AI and Data Science, he’s great at turning geek speak into plain English. When he’s not working, you’ll ...