Acclaimed digital therapist Woebot is shutting down Created with DALL-EA pioneering AI therapy chatbot is scheduled to close on June 30, with experts suggesting that the shutdown reflects the difficulties of providing effective mental health care and managing safety concerns in the digital realm.Woebot: innovation and recognition in digital therapyWoebot, first introduced in 2017 as...
Image Credits: DepositphotosChinese AI lab DeepSeek gained widespread attention this week as its chatbot app surged to the top of both the Apple App Store and Google Play charts. The company’s AI models, developed with compute-efficient methods, have prompted Wall Street analysts and tech experts to question the U.S.'s ability to maintain its leadership...
Credit: PixabayA recent study by French AI testing platform Giskard found that asking popular chatbots to give more concise responses "dramatically impacts hallucination rates." The analysis, which included models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Grok, and DeepSeek, revealed that brevity requests "specifically degraded factual reliability across most models tested," according to a blog post...
Image Credits:Malorny / Getty ImagesOpenAI’s ChatGPT may be the world's most popular chatbot app, but competitors are gaining traction, according to analytics firms Similarweb and Sensor Tower.Similarweb, which tracks web traffic to chatbot platforms, has observed steady growth among rivals like Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s OpenAI-powered Copilot. In March, Gemini’s daily web visits averaged...
(Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA IMAGES/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGESAccording to online exchanges by developers testing the AI creation, Microsoft's fledgling Bing chatbot can go off the rails at times, denying obvious facts and chiding users.On Wednesday, a Reddit forum dedicated to the AI-powered version of Bing search engine was full...
Mark Zuckerberg. Credit: MetaMeta's new prototype chatbot (BlenderBot 3) has told the BBC that Mark Zuckerberg is exploiting users for money.Meta claims the chatbot makes use of artificial intelligence and can converse about "nearly any topic".While asking about the chatbot's thoughts on the firm's CEO and founder, it responded to the BBC reporter: "our...
