Four major generative AI chatbots – OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity AI – did a shoddy job of summarizing the news, a study by the BBC found.

Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. AI chatbots struggle with factual inaccuracies and distortions when summarizing news stories, research from the BBC has found. The study ...

When the movie Her debuted in 2013, its plot about a man falling in love with an AI operating system seemed, if not wholly original, a vision of the distant future. About a decade later, though ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve at a breakneck speed, custom chatbots are no longer reserved for big companies with a dedicated team of coders. In 2025, AI chatbots are being ...

Chinese start-up DeepSeek recently displaced ChatGPT as the top-ranking artificial intelligence app, in part by dazzling the public with a free version of the hottest idea in AI — a chatbot that ...

Generative and conversational AI tools have their uses, but it’s a bad idea to ask any chatbot about your safety, home security, or threats to your house. We tried -- and it’s unnerving how ...

“It’s a no-brainer to me.” Many people already turn to AI chatbots for mental health support; one of the older offerings, called Woebot, has been downloaded by around 1.5 million user ...

From a user's perspective, AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, etc., are essentially chatbots—albeit revolutionary ones. Users experience them through a chat interface. So the question ...

Analysis from the UCLA Latino Policy Institute shows Latinos are overrepresented in fields at risk of automation. © 2024 Fortune Media IP Limited. All Rights ...

Character.AI, the chatbot for conversing with different AI characters, is offering a new activity for those looking to do more than just talk to its virtual personalities. The platform is testing ...

17 Tips to Maximize Security When Using ChatGPT and Other AI Tools While some tips are tailored specifically for ChatGPT, many can be applied broadly to other AI chatbots, enhancing their safe and ...

When a chatbot "hallucinates" a wrong answer, it presents it as fact, which could confuse you or steer you in the wrong direction, especially if that wrong answer is in another language.