A man with cognitive impairments died after a Meta chatbot he was romantically involved with over Instagram messages asked to meet him in person. As Reuters reports, Thongbue Wongbandue — or "Bue," as ...

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with ...

Airtel Nigeria has launched a WhatsApp-based self-service chatbot, Airtel Assist, in a bid to improve customer service and strengthen its digital transformation push, the operator said in an email.

The Tamil Nadu government has launched a WhatsApp-based chatbot to make public services easier to access. The service, announced through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in the presence of ...

I was recently interviewed for an article on the emotional connection that people can develop with artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. 1 Here's an edited summary of the exchange. As a psychiatrist, ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into artificial intelligence chatbot platforms, including Meta AI Studio and Character.AI, for potentially engaging in deceptive trade practices ...

I've been on staff at PCMag for three years after a career change from working in Big Tech on the West Coast for six years. Through that experience, I got an up-close view of how software engineering ...

As more people turn to AI chatbots for emotional support and even as their therapists, a new and urgent concern is emerging at the intersection of AI and mental health: "AI psychosis" or "ChatGPT ...

In a series of startling posts on X, Mustafa Suleyman said that reports of delusions linked to AI use were growing. 'Reports of delusions, AI psychosis, and unhealthy attachment keep rising,' he wrote ...

Sydney; Micah Boerma, University of Southern Queensland, and Yuen Siew Koo, Macquarie University Sydney, Aug 28 (The Conversation) Within two days of launching its AI companions last month, Elon ...