The alert Drew received a few weeks ago wasn't the same as the others. It was for an AI chatbot, created in Jennifer’s image and likeness, on the buzzy, Google-backed platform Character.AI.

Since then, the tech world has been in a full-blown AI arms race, with every major player vying for a piece of the chatbot pie. The appeal of the best AI chatbots lies in their ability to ...

Jennifer’s name and image had been used to create a chatbot on Character.AI, a website that allows users to converse with digital personalities made using generative artificial intelligence.

A new report about a hacked “AI girlfriend” website claims that many users are trying (and possibly succeeding) at using the chatbot to simulate horrific sexual abuse of children. On October 8 ...

The idea of chatbots has been around since the early days of the internet. But even compared to popular voice assistants like Siri, the generated chatbots of the modern era are far more powerful.

It can use that to detect if your pet hasn’t been fed that morning and trigger the voice bot to say something to remind you about it. You will, of course, also have to put aside the very valid ...

Choudhary, the founder of an artificial intelligence startup based in Palo Alto, has fawned over the chatbot from OpenAI ever since it helped him squash a massive bug in his code.

With a loneliness epidemic gripping many parts of the world, some people are turning to AI chatbots for friendship and relationships. But is it really all just harmless fun? Chris excitedly posts ...

Called Ebb, the chatbot was trained by clinical psychologists and data scientists to help people make positive behavioral changes with motivational interviewing. Mental health app Headspace has ...

The offering is, in essence, a low- or no-code method for deploying chatbots for employees or customers. Salesforce says the new platform is already being used by firms including OpenTable ...

Perplexity AI, makers of the popular chatbot by the same name, announced Thursday that it is rolling out a pair of new features that promise to give users more flexibility over the sorts of ...

Available in both free and paid versions, Google Gemini is a chatbot and AI image generator that you can also use as a digital assistant on Android instead of the Google Assistant. But can it ...