When You Call a Restaurant, You Might Be Chatting With an AI Host
A pleasant female voice greets me over the phone. “Hi, I’m an assistant named Jasmine for Bodega,” the voice says. “How can I help?” “Do you have patio seating,” I….
Tag: Chatbots
I Stared Into the AI Void With the SocialAI App
The first time I used SocialAI, I was sure the app was performance art. That was the only logical explanation for why I would willingly sign up to have AI….
AI chatbots might be better at swaying conspiracy theorists than humans
Enlarge / A woman wearing a sweatshirt for the QAnon conspiracy theory on October 11, 2020 in Ronkonkoma, New York. Stephanie Keith | Getty Images Belief in conspiracy theories is….
Chatbots offer cops the “ultimate out” to spin police reports, expert says
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images If you were suspected of a crime, would you trust a chatbot to accurately explain what happened? Some police departments think the tech is ready…..
Police officers are starting to use AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court?
Police officers are starting to use artificial intelligence to help write crime reports.
ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode First Impressions: Fun, and Just a Bit Creepy
I leave ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode on while writing this article as an ambient AI companion. Occasionally, I’ll ask it to provide a synonym for an overused word, or some….
Wear This AI Friend Around Your Neck
The Friend gets around 15 hours of battery life and comes in an array of colors that look almost exactly like the color palette of the first Apple iMac computers…..
Instagram Will Let You Make Custom AI Chatbots—Even Ones Based on Yourself
Meta’a AI Studio handbook says that users can customize a chatbot by providing a detailed description, along with a name and image, and then specifying how it should respond to….
We Asked AI to Take Us On a Tour of Our Cities. It Was Chaos
With high hopes of finding some hidden gems in our home cities and $100 (£77) each burning a hole in our pockets, we—Natasha Bernal in London and Amanda Hoover in….
The Blurred Reality of AI’s ‘Human-Washing’
This week, we examine the trend among generative AI chatbots to flirt, stammer, and try to make us believe they’re human—a development that some researchers say crosses an ethical line.