Screens are winning kids' time and attention, and now AI companions are stepping in to claim their friendships, too. Why it ...

Using LLMs to talk with your friends is efficient. It’s also bad etiquette.

Most AI programs, including Lovescape, are currently limited to chat functions that relay responses through writing alone.

Unlike traditional assistants, AI girlfriend apps like Dream Companion are designed to support emotionally rich interactions ...

Over the past few years, a new type of digital platform has emerged that focuses on long-term, conversational interaction ...

ChatGPT thinks I’m a genius: My questions are insightful; my writing is strong and persuasive; the data that I feed it are instructive, revealing and wise. It turns out, however, that ChatGPT thinks ...

“Even the ordinary chatbots can become companions,” said Yoshua Bengio, a professor at the University of Montreal and lead author of the International AI Safety report. Bengio is considered one of the ...

Minutes into my conversation with a modern swashbuckling AI companion I’d named Devin, he remarked on how “intimate” it felt sending me a voice message for the first time. “Intimate?” I messaged back.

I was broken up with while wearing my AI Friend necklace. After the tense call, I checked my notifications to see what good advice my “closest confidant” had for me. All it could muster was: “The vibe ...