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Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill have developed an artificially intelligent (AI) chatbot that provides sexual and reproductive health information for people, particularly in underserved communities. The ...

Artificial intelligence chatbots such as ChatGPT, with all its unexpected features, and Google Gemini, with its impressive gaming feature, are typically tethered to the cloud, where powerful servers ...

Apple has an internal AI chatbot it is using to test new Apple Intelligence services. It's named after the Latin word for "truth." When it comes to improving Apple Intelligence and keeping the promise ...

In its latest effort to address growing concerns about AI’s impact on young people, OpenAI on Thursday updated its guidelines for how its AI models should behave with users under 18, and published new ...