Chatbot

Brits believe the bots even though study finds they're often talking nonsense

Consumer group Which? warns AI assistants can dish out unclear, risky, or downright daft advice

AI + ML18 Nov 2025 | 34

Alibaba releases chatbot that produces error when asked about Tiananmen Square

Yet Chinese giant wants users to ‘ask any question, big or small, anytime, anywhere!’

AI + ML18 Nov 2025 | 39

Mad man builds chatbot in Minecraft with redstone, Python, and patience

Replies are slow and it's prone to gibberish – just like any other AI

Offbeat02 Oct 2025 | 13

Bank reverses decision to replace 45 customer service staff with AI chatbot

Also fired another AI - GitHub Copilot - after it produced ‘mixed results in utilization and efficacy’

AI + ML22 Aug 2025 | 39

China sends an AI to its space station, where Taikonauts use it to prep for spacewalk

Single spacesuit now worn 20 times

Science19 Aug 2025 | 7

OpenAI's GPT-5 is here with up to 80% fewer hallucinations

That totally makes up for the single-digit benchmark gains, right?

AI + ML07 Aug 2025 | 51

People have empathy with AI… as long as they think it's human

Study finds emotional support from chatbots is more readily accepted if participants don't know it's an AI

AI + ML01 Jul 2025 | 8

AI ain't B2B if OpenAI is to be believed

Comment But it's still going to come in through the back door

AI + ML25 May 2025 | 16

Research reimagines LLMs as tireless tools of torture

No need for thumbscrews when your chatbot never lets up

AI + ML21 May 2025 | 24

OpenAI pulls plug on ChatGPT smarmbot that praised user for ditching psychiatric meds

Sycophantic update to GPT-4o rolled back after AI gets over-enthusiastic with the 'glaze'

AI + ML30 Apr 2025 | 27

Pidgin is back, so let's talk about why a local chat client matters

Multi-protocol chat client is approaching version 3

Software13 Apr 2025 | 43

Pornhub lockdown and fact-free Zuckbots – welcome to 2025

Opinion Think you're good at spotting trends? Try these on for size

Networks13 Jan 2025 | 128

Want advice from UK government website about tax 'n' stuff? Talk to the chatbot

Need to know how to set up a business? There's an (experimental) AI for that

Public Sector06 Nov 2024 | 31

Sorry, but the ROI on enterprise AI is abysmal

Appen points to, among other problems, a lack of high-quality training data labeled by humans

AI + ML22 Oct 2024 | 44

Salesforce mulls charging per AI chat as investors sweat over fewer seats

Benioff sees 'very high margin opportunity' in bid to 'monetize' productivity gains

SaaS29 Aug 2024 | 5

Samsung buys UK AI startup to give its products the personal touch

Oxford Semantic could help your fridge and smartphone pick up on your proclivities

AI + ML18 Jul 2024 | 15

EFF wants FTC to treat lying chatbots as 'unfair and deceptive' in eyes of the law

And hit AI operators 'with all the fines', says Cory Doctorow

Public Sector02 Jul 2024 | 13

World's top AI chatbots have no problem parroting Russian disinformation

Study finds they're taking Putin pushers' point of view 30% of the time

AI + ML19 Jun 2024 | 67

DuckDuckGo AI Chat promises privacy for bot conversations

There's also an off switch

AI + ML06 Jun 2024 | 16

China creates LLM trained to discuss Xi Jinping's philosophies

What next? Kim-Jong-AI? Don't laugh – Nvidia has pondered rebuilding a digital Napoleon

AI + ML23 May 2024 | 14

Wondering when AI will turn up at your work? Microsoft says look behind you

Research lands weeks after the Copilot company said it was still trying to convince customers of benefits

AI + ML09 May 2024 | 25

ChatGPT Plus remembers everything you forgot you told it to remember

Unless you live in Europe or Korea

AI + ML30 Apr 2024 | 6

MPs ask: Why is it so freakin' hard to get AI giants to pay copyright holders?

Agreement on consent and compensation has failed to materialize

AI + ML11 Apr 2024 | 58

Nvidia's newborn ChatRTX bot patched for security bugs

Flaws enable privilege escalation and remote code execution

Patches28 Mar 2024 | 1

Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4

We thought you people wanted choice, IT colossus sniffs

Applications15 Mar 2024 | 62

Are you ready to back up your AI chatbot's promises? You'd better be

Opinion Air Canada discovered the hard way that when your ML model makes a commitment, your biz will be on the hook for it

AI + ML23 Feb 2024 | 79

Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount

Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions

AI + ML15 Feb 2024 | 94

DPD chatbot blasts courier company, swears, and dabbles in awful poetry

So this is the AI revolution

Bootnotes23 Jan 2024 | 48

Media experts cry foul over AI's free lunch of copyrighted content

US senators want to know how chatbots represent an existential crisis to journalism and democracy

AI + ML12 Jan 2024 | 16

OpenAI rolls out Team tier because not everyone has enterprise-deep pockets

Benefits include no snacking on your sensitive data

AI + ML11 Jan 2024 | 3

Late model: OpenAI GPT Store may debut next week

Devil is in the as-yet-undisclosed revenue sharing details

AI + ML05 Jan 2024 |

Here's who thinks AI chatbots will eventually be smart enough to be your coworker

Comment Large language models one day may automate your day-to-day work chores – without getting you fired, we hope

AI + ML27 Dec 2023 | 101

AI threatens to automate away the clergy

Is divine intervention next on the tech to-do list?

Bootnotes29 Nov 2023 | 77

Microsoft reportedly runs GitHub's AI Copilot at a loss

Analysis Redmond willing to do its accounts in red ink to get you hooked

CxO11 Oct 2023 | 6

AI girlfriend encouraged man to attempt crossbow assassination of Queen

21-year-old jailed for nine years after he was egged on by Replika bot

AI + ML06 Oct 2023 | 110

Microsoft Bing Chat pushes malware via bad ads

From AI to just plain aaaiiiee!

Cyber-crime29 Sep 2023 | 16

After failing at privacy, again, Google is working to keep Bard chats out of Search

The URLs needed to share chat histories have been indexed. Of course

Security28 Sep 2023 | 10

Google Bard can now tap into your Gmail, Docs, more

Web giant promises personal info and files won't be used to train this chatbot

AI + ML20 Sep 2023 | 34

Alibaba set to unleash AI that offers financial advice – do you feel lucky?

Claims it's already comparable to finance industry pros and capable of recommending insurance plans

AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 8

Google reportedly designing chatbots to do all sorts of jobs – including life coach

Machines have no experience in the real world, so why would you turn to them for advice?

AI + ML17 Aug 2023 | 16

New Zealand supermarket's recipe-generating AI takes toxic output to a new level

Some of its suggestions are poison. Others - like banana and tomato tea - might as well be

AI + ML11 Aug 2023 | 67

Google wants to 'supercharge Assistant' with AI as Meta gives bots a personality

Does that include Zuck or?

AI + ML01 Aug 2023 | 5

1 in 4 Brits are playing with generative AI, and some take its word as gospel

Employees are kicking back and letting chatbots do the work

AI + ML17 Jul 2023 | 44

California man's business is frustrating telemarketing scammers with chatbots

Will you choose Salty Sally or Whitey Whitebeard? It doesn't matter; they're both intolerable

Offbeat03 Jul 2023 | 92

Snowflake's finding NeMo to train custom AI models

Snowflake Summit Submerge an Nvidia LLM 20,000 leagues under the data lake

Databases27 Jun 2023 |

We just don't get enough time, contractor tasked with fact-checking Google Bard tells us

There's an old saying in business: Time, money, quality – you can have any two

AI + ML21 Jun 2023 | 25

Google Lens now can spot problematic skin spots, or not

It's not a doctor, it just plays one on the internet

AI + ML15 Jun 2023 | 17

Search engines don't always help chatbots generate accurate answers

Research shows developers have to find new ways to manipulate information for AI

AI + ML07 Jun 2023 | 5

Eating disorder non-profit pulls chatbot for emitting 'harmful advice'

Just as helpline staff say they were laid off after forming a union

AI + ML31 May 2023 | 18

Baidu boss says good luck talking AI to Beijing if you don't understand censorship

Unlike AI's output, the web giant's profits are not hallucinatory

AI + ML18 May 2023 | 5

Microsoft helps devs create chatbots – because who needs human interaction anyway?

It's now easier to whip up the conversational tool of your HR department's dreams

Applications02 May 2023 | 4

ChatGPT hasn't been around for long and Nvidia already wants to put a leash on it

NeMo Guardrails stops everything that made these chatbots so much fun

AI + ML26 Apr 2023 | 9

4chan and other web sewers scraped up into Google's mega-library for training ML

Are you still so keen to have generative AI write your emails, sales proposals, blog posts ... ?

AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 101

Baidu sues Apple and anyone else in sight over ERNIE chatbot fakes

Someone in China upset its tech was ripped off? The irony

AI + ML10 Apr 2023 | 22

It is now safe to turn off your brain: Google CEO asked Bard to plan his dad's 80th birthday

Though he never said he went through with the idea to 'make a scrapbook'

Offbeat05 Apr 2023 | 22

Microsoft adds chatbots to Teams for the Pentagon

Yes, DoD admins, your users can ask for this now, but make sure your bots are in compliance

Defense Tech Week04 Apr 2023 | 4