Creating a chatbot is no walk in the park. While it’s true that now anyone can craft a good enough bot, it’s still easy to mess up a conversational UX. As for any creative enterprise, in bot design, ...

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.” ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More These days, conversational artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are ...

In response to ChatGPT and others, Google is planning to add direct answers to Search. A new report details one possible design for a chatbot in Search as Google ramps up internal testing. According ...

While many educators spent the past two years fretting that artificial intelligence is killing student writing, upending person-to-person tutoring and generally wreaking havoc on scholastic inquiry, ...

A recent UNESCO report reveals that most popular voice-based conversational agents are designed to be female. In the report, it outlines the potentially harmful effects gender bias in artificial ...