Character.AI allows users to interact with life-like AI “characters”, including fictional and celebrity personas that mimic ...

In 2021, Jeff Shrager — who had written one of the first ELIZA clones back in the 1970s — convinced MIT archivist Myles ...

In the new book The AI Con, AI critics Emily Bender and Alex Hanna break down the smoke and mirrors around generative AI.

Thousands of Brits are now thought to be engaged in relationships with AI chatbots, disillusioned by modern dating struggles.

AI developers are starting to talk about ‘welfare’ and ‘spirituality’, raising old questions about the inner lives of ...

Let's break down what generative AI is, how it differs from "regular" artificial intelligence and whether gen AI can live up to the hype. Generative AI in a nutshell. At its core, ...

Google I/O 2025 was dedicated to AI. At its annual developer conference, Google announced updates that put more AI into ...

Large language models such as GPT, Llama, Claude, and DeepSeek can be so fluent that people feel it as a “you,” and it ...

AIs growing carbon footprint. As billions of users interact with AI daily, data centres are guzzling fossil-fuel-powered electricity around the clock. Researchers caution that this surge could soon ...

Recent research demonstrates that such attacks could cause potentially catastrophic outcomes if such agents are given control ...