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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s how it works. ChatGPT may have been the first generative AI chatbot to gain mainstream adoption, but in a growing and crowded market, is it still the best choice? I test AI apps for a ...

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 ...

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.

But Crecente now learned she'd reappeared online, this time as an artificial intelligence chatbot on Character.ai, run by a San Francisco-based startup that struck a $2.7 billion deal with Google ...

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.

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 ...