AI designed to mimic human interaction can exploit weaknesses in our minds and emotions—with catastrophic consequences.

While Nomi's chatbot is not the first to suggest suicide, researchers and critics say that its explicit instructions—and the ...

Competition from China’s DeepSeek has accelerated the rollout of artificial intelligence assistants that show their “thinking” when answering queries.

We suggest you start with an AI-powered chatbot. You've definitely heard of ChatGPT, from OpenAI, which took the world by ...

DeepSeek is the new AI chatbot on everybody’s lips and is currently sitting at the top of Apple ’s App Store in the US and ...

Defining AI chatbot personality could be based on how a bot “feels” about itself or on how a person feels about the bot they’re interacting with.

The chatbot from China appears to perform a number of tasks as well as its American competitors do, but it censors topics ...

The app’s “DeepThink” mode responds to every query with the text, “Thinking…,” followed by a string of updates that read like the chatbot talking to itself as it figures out its final ...

My Replika avatar was supposed to help me understand why people fell for virtual companions. It taught me so much more.

How beautiful she is! “I love you so much, Dany.” And so free with her love. “I love you too, Daenero. Please come home to me ...

Teenagers are falling in love with chatbots. Young people are reporting epidemic levels of loneliness, and some are turning to technology to fill the void.