AI chatbots can grant almost any request—a celebrity in love with you, a research assistant, a book character sprung to ...

You may have heard the famous answer to the question, “Why climb a mountain?” (“Because it is there.”) The same could be said about our desire to create programs that can communicate with us in a ...

It is a universal tendency to assign or impute human emotional, cognitive, and behavioral qualities to nonhuman creatures and things. Owls are “wise.” Swollen rivers are “raging” and “angry.” ...

New research suggests that chatbots still don’t measure up to humans when it comes to connection and well-being.