Every user interaction improves chatbot performance. Developers are therefore incentivized to boost user engagement. This can lead to sycophancy, emotional manipulation, and worse. Anyone who ...

What is a chatbot’s earliest memory? Or biggest fear? Researchers who put major artificial-intelligence models through four weeks of psychoanalysis got haunting answers to these questions, from ...

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Artificial intelligence has dominated headlines over the last few years, for good reasons. It has been compared with the industrial revolution in that it will change the way we do everything and ...