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Last week, the tragic news broke that US teenager Sewell Seltzer III took his own life after forming a deep emotional attachment to an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot on the Character.AI website.This post was originally […]

Unless you’re a moderator for a local community group discussing garbage collections or dog park etiquette, you are unlikely to fully understand the sheer volume and scale of abuse directed at people online.This post was […]

Billions of people around the world are using internet-connected medical devices to monitor their health, but could be putting themselves at risk of hackers using their data for unhealthy reasons, according to a new cybersecurity […]

As AI technology becomes a ubiquitous part of daily life, from home automation to personal assistants, concerns have emerged regarding the ethical issues of AI systems. These concerns include transparency in how AI makes decisions […]

Earlier this year, a Spanish TV program showed several people listening to digital recreations of the voices of their deceased relatives that had been generated by artificial intelligence from real audios. It sparked widespread debate […]

Large language models (LLMs), AI systems that can process human language and generate new texts in response to written prompts, are now widely used by people worldwide to complete various tasks. These systems can be […]

A pitiful sound from tinny speakers, sad virtual eyes, trembling robot arms: It doesn’t take much to feel sorry for a robot. This is the conclusion of a study by Marieke Wieringa, who will be […]

Imagine you decide to write a short story about a protagonist who creates an artificial human and then falls in love with it. What gender is your protagonist? What about the artificial human? Would you […]

Voice assistants (VAs) like Alexa and Siri continue to gain popularity in households and on personal devices. According to digital trends research company Emarketer, the number of VA users will surpass 150 million in 2025. […]

Microsoft’s ambition to become the “Netflix of video games” faces a huge test this week with the release of “Call of Duty: Black Ops 6” on Friday.This post was originally published on this site