Psychologists and technologists see them as the future of therapy. The Food and Drug Administration is exploring whether to ...

Eliza wants to know how you feel. Before we go any further, please know that Eliza, or ELIZA, wasn’t a human being, but an early conversational artificial intelligence agent developed in 1966 by the ...

Ever since the first chatbot was released in 1966, researchers have been documenting our tendency to attribute emotions to computer programmes. The capacity to form attachments to even rudimentary ...

"I had not realized ... that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people." Joseph Weizenbaum, creator of ELIZA My ...

Relationships are messy, whether you are an adult with lots of experience or a kid navigating tough times with a best friend, boyfriend or girlfriend. You can’t predict moods, interests or desires.

Can machines think? It’s a question that mathematician Alan Turing first posed in 1950 and became the cornerstone of his experiment, known as the Turing test, in which a human and a machine are ...

Whether you realize it or not, artificial intelligence is everywhere. It sits behind the chatbots you talk to online, the playlists you stream and the personalized ads showing up in your scrolling.

Imagine this: In the final months of her life, your mother, while in palliative care, paid an AI company to create a digital replica of herself. The pitch was simple — this AI avatar would ease your ...

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Representative image In 1948, the founder of information theory, Claude Shannon, proposed modelling language in terms of the probability of the next word in a sentence given the previous words. These ...

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, have demonstrated for the first time the passage of artificial intelligence systems a three-way version of the classic Turing test The test is ...

Earlier this year, the technology world welcomed back a long-lost friend. ELIZA, the world’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, had wowed the computer scientists of the mid-1960s with its ability ...