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

Eliza was unveiled in 1966 at MIT by computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum. Here's why the chatbot remains relevant today.

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

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

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 ...

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

Google I/O, Google’s biggest developer conference of the year, is here. I/O will showcase product announcements from across ...

Researchers have successfully revived “ELIZA,” the world’s first chatbot, utilizing original computer code that had been forgotten for nearly 60 years. Found in dusty printouts within the ...

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. Is it all a bit of harmless fun?

when MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum invented ELIZA, the first-ever chatbot. ELIZA was a conversation chatbot, programmed to act as a psychotherapist for users by scanning for keywords and ...