When Yang “Sunny” Lu asked OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 to calculate 1-plus-1 a few years ago, the chatbot, not surprisingly, told her the answer was 2. But when Lu told the bot that her professor said 1-plus-1 ...

Health chatbots are not popular because patients believe artificial intelligence is smarter than their doctors. They are ...

Conversing with an AI chatbot is fast becoming an unavoidable part of living and working on the internet. But for some people, their integration into everyday life has had devastating consequences.

A screenshot from the site Replika, which creates a custom chatbot that mirrors the user. AI is not just for automating tasks or coming up with new recipe ideas. Increasingly, people are turning to AI ...

Can we rely on mental health apps? Image by Tim Sandle Can we rely on mental health apps? Image by Tim Sandle AI “therapist” chatbots—such as ChatGPT, Woebot, Replika, and Wysa—have surged in ...

I was expecting a “hello” or “hi,” statements of straightforward recognition. “Hey, you” was more knowing, more familiar. Say it in a crowd, and you place yourself and the other person in a cozy kind ...

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