Teen use of AI chatbots is growing, and psychologists worry it's affecting their social development and mental health. Here's ...

Task-oriented dialogue systems are sophisticated computational frameworks designed to facilitate goal-directed interactions between humans and machines. These systems integrate several core components ...

Companies like OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek offer chatbots designed to take their time with an answer. Here’s how they work. By Cade Metz and Dylan Freedman Cade Metz reported from San Francisco and ...

These are tense times. Climate change threatens billions of people around the world. Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is slowing. And 35 years after the end of the cold war, ...

Spoken language understanding (SLU) and dialogue systems form the backbone of interactive computing, enabling machines to interpret, process, and respond to human speech. These systems integrate ...

A project deadline is approaching. A manager opens a chatbot to speed things up. He asks it to summarise a client brief, shares internal timelines and even types in pricing details to get a faster ...

With long waiting lists and rising costs in overburdened healthcare systems, many people are turning to AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT for medical self-diagnosis. About one in six American adults ...

The Charcter.AI logo on a smartphone. Character.AI, a Google-backed AI chatbot platform, is facing scrutiny after reports revealed last month that some users created chatbots emulating real-life ...

Chatbots once symbolized digital transformation — those polite text boxes on corporate websites and service portals promised to make support smarter and cheaper. The addition of generative AI (genAI) ...