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 ...

Instagram's AI Kurt Cobain chatbot is extremely popular, logging more than 105.5k interactions to date. However, if you look ...

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?

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

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

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 ...

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