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

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

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

In 1966 Joseph Weizenbaum created the first chatbot Eliza, which could run its “Doctor” script to act like a psychotherapist of the Rogerian school — supportive, non-judgemental, and full of ...

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

When multibillion-dollar AI developer Anthropic released the latest versions of its Claude chatbot last week, a surprising ...

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