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A chatbot is a software application designed to simulate human conversation. It interacts with users through messaging platforms, websites, or mobile apps, using pre-set scripts or artificial intelligence technologies to understand queries and provide responses. Chatbots are often used for customer service, information retrieval, or as virtual assistants.

Emory's Chatbot Makes Molecular Modeling as Simple as Chatting

Emory University has developed AutoSolvateWeb, a cloud-based platform with a rules-based chatbot that enables non-experts to run sophisticated quantum chemistry simulations through natural-language guidance. This free tool democratizes access to molecular modeling, advancing both education and scientific research.

7 Apr 2025

Researchers Cut AI Energy Use by 90% with Smarter, Leaner Models

Researchers at Saarland University and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence have developed techniques to reduce AI energy consumption by up to 90%, making AI models smaller, more efficient, and more accessible to businesses. Their approach, showcased at Hannover Messe, aims to revolutionize sustainable AI.

19 Mar 2025

AI Feels Human Trauma: Study Reveals Chatbots React with Anxiety

AI language models, like ChatGPT, exhibit heightened anxiety responses when exposed to traumatic content, mirroring human emotional biases. Researchers found that therapeutic prompts can help stabilize AI behavior, offering a cost-effective alternative to retraining.

4 Mar 2025

Embarrassed? Talk to AI. Angry? Talk to a Human, Says New Study

New research from the University of Kansas reveals that people prefer AI chatbots when embarrassed but turn to humans when angry. The study used eye-tracking and emotion recognition to examine how emotions influence vaccine-related interactions.

24 Feb 2025

AI Chatbots Give Basic Endometriosis Info but Lack Medical Accuracy

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center found that AI chatbots provide basic information on endometriosis but lack the depth and accuracy of healthcare professionals. ChatGPT performed best among the three chatbots studied.

20 Feb 2025

AI Chatbots for Smoking Cessation: Helpful but Not Without Risks, Study Finds

A study from George Washington University evaluated AI chatbots for smoking cessation, finding that while most followed public health guidelines, 22% provided misinformation, highlighting the need for improvements.

10 Feb 2025

AI Security Education Gets a Boost to Combat Growing Cyber Threats

Researchers from NJIT, Rutgers, and Temple University are developing AI security education programs to address adversarial machine learning threats, aiming to equip future engineers with robust defense strategies.

9 Feb 2025

AI Companions Are Becoming Irreplaceable, But Are They Hacking Our Minds?

AI is shifting from transactional tools to social companions, raising concerns about emotional bonds, manipulation risks, and the need for socioaffective alignment to ensure AI supports rather than exploits human relationships.

5 Feb 2025

AI-Powered Clustering Makes Sense of Social Media Chaos With Human-Interpretable Results

Researchers developed a method using large language models (LLMs) to cluster short text data into human-interpretable groups, validated by both human reviewers and generative AI like ChatGPT, offering scalable solutions for analyzing social media and other short text datasets.

21 Jan 2025

AI Models Struggle to Master Expert-Level Historical Knowledge

Researchers benchmarked AI models using the Seshat Global History Databank and found significant gaps in their ability to understand and analyze expert-level historical knowledge.

21 Jan 2025

Open-Weight AI Models Outperform Rivals in Privacy-Safe Radiology Report Analysis

Open-weight large language models (LLMs) are as effective as closed-weight systems for structuring radiology reports while ensuring patient data privacy through local implementation.

14 Jan 2025

Can You Trust a Chatbot?

Researchers from the University of Basel reveal that trust in AI chatbots is shaped by integrity and competence, with personalization enhancing user engagement but not trust.

9 Jan 2025

The Next Wave of AI: Amazon Nova Merges Intelligence With Creativity

Amazon Nova revolutionizes foundation models with state-of-the-art generative AI capabilities, delivering unparalleled performance for multimodal tasks, document analysis, and creative content generation while prioritizing customization and ethical AI use.

10 Dec 2024

Cambridge Researchers Build AI "Bullshit" Detector

Researchers from Cambridge developed a method to detect "bullshit" in ChatGPT’s outputs, revealing striking parallels between AI-generated text and uninformative human discourse like political language and "bullshit jobs."

2 Dec 2024

AMD Unveils Open-Source 1B Language Model to Drive Innovation in AI

Researchers introduce AMD OLMo, an open-source language model with 1 billion parameters, trained using 1.3 trillion tokens on AMD GPUs to push the boundaries of AI, enabling improved reasoning, instruction-following, and ethical alignment in AI systems.

10 Nov 2024

AI Watermarking Breakthrough Makes Synthetic Text Detection Faster and More Accurate

A new watermarking method, SynthID-Text, enables clear identification of AI-generated text while preserving quality and efficiency.

27 Oct 2024

G7 Toolkit Empowers Governments to Deploy Ethical and Transparent AI

The G7 Toolkit for Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector outlines strategies for ethical, secure, and effective AI deployment in governments, emphasizing human rights and transparency. It includes case studies and best practices to guide responsible AI adoption globally.

17 Oct 2024