Iason Mink, a high-class Blondie, runs into Riki, a black-haired Mongrel, and makes him his "Pet." As Riki learns of the dangers Iason faces by keeping him, he finds himself developing feelings ...

The recent breakthroughs in AI have reignited excitement over “artificial general intelligence,” or the capability of computer programs to someday reason and comprehend the world at the same ...

Now it appears that Google is making a subtle tweak to the service’s notification to make it look more like you’re phoning a friend than chatting ... impersonal AI. We should note that most ...

Google’s Gemini Live can talk to you, but I wouldn’t call the human-sounding AI chatbot a stimulating conversationalist. Despite that, Google wants you to—at the very least—imagine Gemini ...

“The acceleration from generative AI will move us to a new realm of attack,” Div said, noting that hackers can use the tech to greatly increase the number and sophistication of their attack ...

Penfriend chose to make this move because no other AI software is doing it well. What a person might think is funny will fall flat to someone else. Echo understands the writers unique blend of ...

But as the technology advances, it may well become your AI friend, or even something more ... love with standard versions of ChatGPT, that no longer seems outlandish.

Although it does not have any direct connection with “Companion,” this sense of adoration for a form of AI is similar to a real-life situation from October 2024, when 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III ...

He sent us texts encouraging me and Evan, Paul’s best friend since childhood, to spare him no humor during the time we had left. So jokes and GIFs and memes became the rule. When he did share ...

Instead of an assistant that feels like a travel agent, maybe a friend (or ... agent type AI. With people already falling in love with standard versions of ChatGPT, that no longer seems outlandish.

Friend, a startup creating a $99, AI-powered necklace designed to be treated ... But according to co-founder and CEO Avi Schiffmann, that’s no longer feasible. “As much as I would like to ...