Teens don't have to use weed all that often for it to have a negative effect on their lives, according to a new study. Even using marijuana once or twice a month is linked with worse school ...

Petter Rudwall knows the idea of AIs becoming sentient and seeking to get high with code-based “drugs” seems “stupid.” But the Swedish creative director couldn’t get it out of his head. Rudwall’s ...

At the heart of this drawing is a gentle portrayal of a girl whose grace is emphasized through soft lines and carefully layered tones. The artwork uses subtle transitions of light to shape her ...

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 ...

Nearly a third of US teenagers say they use AI chatbots daily, a new study finds, shedding light on how young people are embracing a technology that’s raised critical safety concerns around mental ...

If you think of something to say and say it, that could never be AI slop, right? In theory, all organically grown utterances and snippets of text are safe from that label. But our shared linguistic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this fall, a team of security experts at the AI company Anthropic uncovered an elaborate cyber-espionage scheme. Hackers—strongly suspected by Anthropic to be working on behalf of the Chinese ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, much like recognizing Morse code. The insects learned which signal led to a ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insect—the bumblebee Bombus terrestris—can decide where to forage for food based on different durations of visual ...

Artificial intelligence has already transformed how guests interact with hotels. Chatbots answer questions, digital concierges make recommendations, and voice assistants turn lights on and off. But I ...