In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

If you’re considering therapy, or if a friend or family member elicits your advice about seeking treatment, should you or ...

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, a new AI agent that connects to email, Slack, calendars and GitHub to automate work tasks ahead ...

In this video, I demonstrate an easy method for making sand casting flasks using inexpensive tongue and groove boards while casting custom knobs for an upcoming project. The use of tongue and groove ...

About 60% of U.S. adults say they read AI summaries at the top of search engine results, while about 30% say they don’t, and 10% are unsure. When a Google AI Overview accompanies search results, ...

The takeaway: Despite the apparent growth of an anti-generative AI movement, more Americans are using chatbots than ever before, according to a new survey. But somewhat paradoxically, just 16% of ...

A Pew survey of 5,119 US adults finds 49% use AI chatbots but 40% say AI will hurt society, 67% distrust government regulation, and 59% distrust companies. Half of American adults now use AI chatbots, ...

Clockwise, from top right: An employee at an Amazon Web Services lab in Austin, Texas; a woman uses a smartwatch; a student before commencement at the University of Southern California; a person uses ...

DoorDash launched a new chatbot that lets users order food and groceries and make reservations with photos and prompts. It's a market that's becoming a major testing ground for agentic AI tools.

When today’s teenagers and young adults are struggling emotionally, some are turning not only to friends, family members and therapists but also to artificial intelligence. Nearly 1 in 5 adolescents ...

To protect consumers, New York must require AI programs to warn users that responses from chatbots are not advice from skilled professionals. Credit: Getty Images. A growing number of Americans are ...