If you've spent any time with ChatGPT or another AI chatbot, you've probably noticed they are intensely, almost overbearingly, agreeable. They apologize, flatter and constantly change their "opinions" ...

Abstract: A virtual chatbot assistant is an interactive application designed to simulate human-like communication and respond to user inquiries promptly. It focuses on building an interesting user ...

Every day, millions of people talk to chatbots and AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Replika and Gemini, but what kind of "relationships" are we really forming with them? Their article, "Decoding ...

Posit’s ggbot2 is a voice assistant for ggplot2. Tell it what you want in a spoken conversation, and it will generate plots and ggplot2 R code from your data. Typing questions into a chatbot is nice, ...

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Emergency room doctors see firsthand how everyday actions can turn life-threatening real quick. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are 155.4 million emergency room ...

Meta will soon use what people tell its artificial intelligence chatbot to get even better at selling them things. The company said on Wednesday that users’ chats and interactions with Meta AI will ...

Advances in AI technology have ushered in a new era of digital romance, where people are forming intimate emotional connections with chatbots. For many, these AI companions are a crucial lifeline, ...

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In context: The demands for disclosure set the stage for months of scrutiny. For companies banking on chatbots as key growth products, the regulator's questions strike directly at how those businesses ...

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