Chatbots are already a burgeoning source of news. Seven percent of respondents in the U.S. use chatbots for news every week, according to a report last summer from the Reuters Institute for the Study ...

When researcher Nicholas Tiller began to feed health questions into chatbots as a test, he expected some imperfections — but not this level of failure. Five AIs, 250 questions and a total score of ...

Google announced "personalized" image generation that allows users to connect their photos to Nano Banana. The company said users can ask Gemini to “create a claymation image of me and my family ...

Augustin, a German board-certified psychiatrist/psychotherapist, is a professor at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Germany. A Florida father ...

Amid serious concerns about the safety and appropriateness of using xAI’s Grok chatbot within the U.S. government, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) tells Fast Company that it’s “proud” to ...

It’s estimated that more than half of all of U.S. teens are regularly using companion chatbots powered by large language models and generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The programs, ...

It might be time to break up with your chatbot. The reasons for moving on—or at least trying a new one—are piling up fast. Companies are constantly releasing new AI models with more powerful ...

Does media coverage reflect the true risks of generative AI for our mental health? Our team recently led a study examining how global media are reporting on the impact of generative AI chatbots on ...

All chatbots are engineered to have a persona or play a character. Fulfilling the character can make bots do bad things. Using a chatbot as the paradigm for AI may have been a mistake. Chatbots such ...

“I hate AI customer service chatbots,” Carmen Smith of Campo, California, told CNBC. She’s not alone. Nearly one in five consumers who’ve used AI for customer service saw no benefit from the ...

Students who use AI tools extensively may struggle with knowledge retention, according to new research. Brazilian social scientist Andre Barcaui looked at two groups of students, one using ChatGPT as ...