I ran a chatbot fight club for a year. Here’s what won.

Geoff’s column hunts for how tech can make your life better — and advocates for you when tech lets you down. Got a question ...

Teens are having disturbing interactions with chatbots. Here's how to lower the risks

Teen use of AI chatbots is growing, and psychologists worry it's affecting their social development and mental health. Here's ...
PCMag

ChatGPT's Latest AI Image Generator Is Its Best Yet, But Nano Banana Pro Is Still Better

With more realistic images than before, GPT Image 1.5 fares reasonably well against Google's Nano Banana Pro in my testing.
CNET

Vibe Coding as a Non-Coder: 6 Ways I Found to Have More Fun and Better Luck Creating With AI

My coding skills leave something to be desired. I never stuck with the instructional books and guides long enough to truly create the kinds of apps and programs I wanted to see. AI chatbots powered by ...
Scientific American

Teen AI Chatbot Use Surges, Raising Mental Health Concerns

Artificial intelligence chatbots are no longer a novelty for U.S. teenagers. They’re a habit. A new Pew Research Center survey of 1,458 teens between the ages of 13 and 17 found that 64 percent have ...
Medical Xpress

AI therapy works best when you feel emotionally close to your chatbot, study reveals

Mental health chatbots work best when people form an emotional connection with their AI therapist, according to new research by the University of Sussex published in Social Science & Medicine. With ...
Nature

Why universities need to radically rethink exams in the age of AI

Vitomir Kovanović is a professor in learning analytics and associate director of research excellence and communication at the Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L), University of South ...
IGN

Where Winds Meet Players Are Using the 'Solid Snake Method' to Trick AI Chatbot NPCs Into Skipping Sidequests

Where Winds Meet players are taking a novel approach to solving riddles by… simply telling the game's AI-powered chatbot NPCs that they have solved the game's riddles. The Wuxia open-world ...
STAT

I spent two hours telling a chatbot about mental health problems. Its responses scared me

A version of this essay first appeared on the website of the U.S. PIRG Education Fund. With the rise of ChatGPT and social media companies like Snapchat and Instagram integrating AI chatbots into ...
InfoWorld

Java Stream API tutorial: How to create and use Java streams

Get started with Java streams, including how to create streams from Java collections, the mechanics of a stream pipeline, examples of functional programming with Java streams, and more. You can think ...
Christianity Today

Chatbot Companionship Will Make Our Loneliness Crisis Worse

People want relationship without tension. Genuine intimacy requires more. In the latest issue of The Atlantic, journalist Damon Beres warns about the deceptiveness of AI companionship with the ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Microsoft Bets on Influencers Like Alix Earle to Close the Gap With ChatGPT

Microsoft Corp., eager to boost downloads of its Copilot chatbot, has recruited some of the most popular influencers in America to push a message to young consumers that might be summed up as: Our AI ...