I ran a chatbot fight club for a year. Here’s what won.

Geoff’s column hunts for how tech can make your life better — and advocates for you when tech lets you down. Got a question ...

How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including DoorDash, Spotify, Uber, and others

OpenAI offers app integrations in ChatGPT to allow you to connect your accounts directly to ChatGPT and ask the assistant to ...

Teens are having disturbing interactions with chatbots. Here's how to lower the risks

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

How to pick between ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and more - what's the right AI chatbot for you?

Prompts: A prompt is simply what you type into an AI chatbot. You can just chat normally, like you would to a friend. But ...
CNET

Vibe Coding as a Non-Coder: 6 Ways I Found to Have More Fun and Better Luck Creating With AI

My coding skills leave something to be desired. I never stuck with the instructional books and guides long enough to truly create the kinds of apps and programs I wanted to see. AI chatbots powered by ...

I compared ChatGPT’s image generation to Nano Banana and only one of them made useful stock photos

ChatGPT impressed me with its speed — none of the stock images looked like computer-generated garbage. However, Nano Banana Pro has the upper hand because it consistently generated more realistic ...
Scientific American

Teen AI Chatbot Use Surges, Raising Mental Health Concerns

Artificial intelligence chatbots are no longer a novelty for U.S. teenagers. They’re a habit. A new Pew Research Center survey of 1,458 teens between the ages of 13 and 17 found that 64 percent have ...
Medical Xpress

AI therapy works best when you feel emotionally close to your chatbot, study reveals

Mental health chatbots work best when people form an emotional connection with their AI therapist, according to new research by the University of Sussex published in Social Science & Medicine. With ...
Nature

Why universities need to radically rethink exams in the age of AI

Vitomir Kovanović is a professor in learning analytics and associate director of research excellence and communication at the Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L), University of South ...
IGN

Where Winds Meet Players Are Using the 'Solid Snake Method' to Trick AI Chatbot NPCs Into Skipping Sidequests

Where Winds Meet players are taking a novel approach to solving riddles by… simply telling the game's AI-powered chatbot NPCs that they have solved the game's riddles. The Wuxia open-world ...
Hackaday

Simple Tricks To Make Your Python Code Faster

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...
STAT

I spent two hours telling a chatbot about mental health problems. Its responses scared me

A version of this essay first appeared on the website of the U.S. PIRG Education Fund. With the rise of ChatGPT and social media companies like Snapchat and Instagram integrating AI chatbots into ...