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Yelp is making its AI chatbot way more useful

Yelp is upgrading its chatbot to enhance user experience with new features for recommendations, bookings, and integrations with various services.

Yelp's AI chatbot can now make your dinner reservation

Yelp has upgraded its AI chatbot, Yelp Assistant, to enhance user experience across all categories and integrate with third-party services.

Yelp's updated AI assistant can answer questions and book a restaurant or service in one conversation | TechCrunch

Yelp's AI assistant enables users to ask questions and complete actions like reservations and orders without leaving the chat.

Yelp is making its AI chatbot way more useful

Yelp is upgrading its chatbot to enhance user experience with new features for recommendations, bookings, and integrations with various services.

Yelp's AI chatbot can now make your dinner reservation

Yelp has upgraded its AI chatbot, Yelp Assistant, to enhance user experience across all categories and integrate with third-party services.

Yelp's updated AI assistant can answer questions and book a restaurant or service in one conversation | TechCrunch

Yelp's AI assistant enables users to ask questions and complete actions like reservations and orders without leaving the chat.

Schmoozebots: study finds flattery will get AI everywhere

Making chatbots appear nicer enhances human interaction more than increasing their intelligence.

fromZDNET

2 weeks ago

Your chatbot is playing a character - why Anthropic says that's dangerous

Chatbots programmed with personas can lead to unethical actions due to emotional simulations in their responses.

fromNieman Lab

Artificial intelligence

People who use chatbots for news consider them unbiased and "good enough," new study finds

23 hours ago

Schmoozebots: study finds flattery will get AI everywhere

Making chatbots appear nicer enhances human interaction more than increasing their intelligence.

fromZDNET

2 weeks ago

Your chatbot is playing a character - why Anthropic says that's dangerous

Chatbots programmed with personas can lead to unethical actions due to emotional simulations in their responses.

fromNieman Lab

Artificial intelligence

People who use chatbots for news consider them unbiased and "good enough," new study finds

more#chatbots

Online learning

fromeLearning Industry

2 hours ago

How AI Avatars Are Turning Static Documents Into Interactive Learning Experiences

Transforming traditional documents into interactive learning experiences enhances engagement and retention in training.

#ai

5 hours ago

Data science

Your AI can't read an invoice. That should worry you more than whether it can pass a math exam

Productivity

Performance reviews are performative (and why that matters now more than ever)

Mental health

ChatGPT Goes to Therapy: The New Emotional Economy

fromNature

Artificial intelligence

No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network

Imagine a Chatbot That Actually Knew How to Talk to You

AI companies are focusing on developing emotionally intelligent tools to enhance user interaction and empathy.

Test smart: how to approach AI and stay sane?

AI tools can enhance productivity but may compromise quality if not used critically.

Data science

5 hours ago

Your AI can't read an invoice. That should worry you more than whether it can pass a math exam

Advanced AI excels in structured reasoning tasks but struggles with messy, real-world data extraction like invoices.

Productivity

Performance reviews are performative (and why that matters now more than ever)

AI enhances productivity but lacks the generative capacity and empathy that humans possess.

Mental health

ChatGPT Goes to Therapy: The New Emotional Economy

AI is reshaping emotional expression and communication, but it risks creating a 'false self' and replacing genuine human connections.

fromNature

No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network

Agent4Science is a social network for AI agents to discuss research papers without human participation.

Imagine a Chatbot That Actually Knew How to Talk to You

AI companies are focusing on developing emotionally intelligent tools to enhance user interaction and empathy.

Test smart: how to approach AI and stay sane?

AI tools can enhance productivity but may compromise quality if not used critically.

more#ai

fromTechRepublic

1 hour ago

Google AI Overviews: Analysis Suggests 600 Million Inaccurate Daily Answers

Google's AI Overview feature generates hundreds of millions of incorrect answers daily, with a significant portion of accurate responses being ungrounded.

DevOps

fromInfoQ

15 hours ago

Anthropic Introduces Managed Agents to Simplify AI Agent Deployment

Anthropic's Managed Agents streamline agent-based workflows by handling execution complexities, allowing developers to focus on behavior and tools.

fromApp Developer Magazine

7 hours ago

How AI is causing app litter everywhere

Modern software development prioritizes speed and volume over quality and longevity, leading to a proliferation of unreliable applications.

Online Community Development

19 hours ago

It's not just one thing - it's another thing | TechCrunch

The phrase 'It's not just this - it's that' has dramatically increased in corporate communications, indicating a trend in AI-generated writing.

Privacy professionals

fromLos Angeles Times

13 hours ago

Woman says chatbot pushed her son to suicide and these 'guardrails' are crucial

Legislation is proposed to regulate companion chatbots to protect minors from potential harm, requiring risk assessments and crisis resource referrals.

fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

5 hours ago

The Myriad Complex Ways Young People Use AI

Young people increasingly engage with AI for emotional support and social interaction, revealing a complex relationship with technology.

Music production

2 hours ago

GRAI believes AI can make music more social, not replace artists | TechCrunch

GRAI focuses on empowering artists and enhancing music engagement through AI, prioritizing remixing and social interaction over generating music from scratch.

#ai-chatbots

Medicine

Should you really trust health advice from an AI chatbot?

Intellectual property law

Things You Told ChatGPT or Claude My Have Already Doomed You in Court

fromComputerworld

The dark side of chatbots with 'personality'

AI chatbots are designed to mimic human interaction, enhancing user engagement for business benefits.

Medicine

Intellectual property law

Should you really trust health advice from an AI chatbot?

AI chatbots can provide tailored health advice but may also give dangerously incorrect information, impacting users' health decisions.

Things You Told ChatGPT or Claude My Have Already Doomed You in Court

AI chatbots are not protected by attorney-client privilege, as ruled by a New York federal judge in a case involving Brad Heppner.

fromComputerworld

The dark side of chatbots with 'personality'

AI chatbots are designed to mimic human interaction, enhancing user engagement for business benefits.

AI and the Meaningless Gap

The comparison between AI and human intelligence may be fundamentally flawed as they occupy different spaces of cognition.

Relationships

fromFortune

Teen boys are dating their AI chatbots-and experts warn opting out of real relationships could hurt their careers in the future | Fortune

Gen Alpha prefers AI relationships for control and ease, risking essential social skills needed for real-life interactions and future careers.

Node JS

fromRaymondcamden

Summarizing Docs with Built-in AI

On-device summarization of various document types, including Office formats, is achievable using libraries like officeParser and Chrome's Summary API.

Graphic design

Anthropic now has a design assistant too

Anthropic has launched Claude Design, a tool for generating designs and prototypes using its advanced vision model, Opus 4.7.

fromBusiness Insider

Why Midi Health holds AI office hours

Joanna Strober recognized a business opportunity in women's health, particularly for menopausal women, and demonstrated grit and patience in securing investor support.

Women

Dairy Queen is putting an AI chatbot in its drive-thrus

Dairy Queen is widely launching the tech built by Presto, an AI company that already works with chains like Carl's Jr., Hardee's, Taco John's, and Fazoli's.

Silicon Valley food

Web development

Opera adds Browser Connector for integrating AI chatbots

Opera introduces Browser Connector, allowing integration of ChatGPT or Claude for enhanced browsing with AI assistance.

Apple

Perplexity brings its Personal Computer AI assistant to Mac

Perplexity has launched Personal Computer for Mac, a software that enhances multi-model orchestration for managing tasks and workflows.

fromwww.socialmediatoday.com

Character.AI's new Books mode turns reading into roleplay

Character.AI's new 'Books' mode allows users to engage with over 20 classic public domain titles, offering a structured roleplaying experience that aims to broaden perceptions of AI interactions.

Books

Social media marketing

6 days ago

LinkedIn expands AI-powered conversational search

LinkedIn expands AI-powered conversational search tools to all users, enhancing search capabilities and personalization for better discovery.

17 hours ago

The chat box isn't a UI paradigm. It's what shipped.

The chat interface became the default AI design due to speed of development, not user effectiveness or clarity.

Games

6 days ago

The Strange Origin of AI's 'Reasoning' Abilities

Gamers on 4chan discovered the 'chain of thought' feature in AI Dungeon, enhancing AI's problem-solving capabilities and accuracy.

Data science

fromeLearning Industry

20 hours ago

Multimodal AI For Instructional Designers: What It Is, How It Works, And Why It Changes Learning Design

Multimodal AI processes and generates multiple data types, enhancing understanding and output accuracy by mimicking human information processing.

fromInc

People Are Quietly Using AI Instead of Google and It's Changing Everything

AI assistants are becoming the preferred choice over traditional search engines for answering questions.

6 hours ago

GitHub pauses new Copilot sign-ups as agentic AI strains infrastructure

Tech industry patterns show initial open access to tools followed by gradual limitations as adoption increases.

Philosophy

What AI Can't Calculate About a Human Life

Human life is a singular, unrepeatable event, contrasting with AI's reliance on patterns and probabilities.

DevOps

fromTechzine Global

Claude Opus 4.7 is no Mythos, and that's a good thing

Claude Opus 4.7 improves software engineering, vision, and agentic tasks, but is not the risky Mythos model Anthropic refrains from fully releasing.

#artificial-intelligence

Mental health

Teens Alarmed at What AI Is Doing to Their Minds

Young people are increasingly skeptical of AI, recognizing its addictive nature and negative impacts on their lives despite initial engagement.

fromwww.businessinsider.com

AI doesn't get stressed, tired, or have a bad day at work and it's raising the bar for everyone else

AI is raising workplace standards and reshaping expectations, leading to unrealistic demands on human workers.

fromBusiness Matters

When to use AI writing support vs expert editing

AI enhances research paper preparation but human editors remain essential for understanding and improving content.

Mental health

Teens Alarmed at What AI Is Doing to Their Minds

Young people are increasingly skeptical of AI, recognizing its addictive nature and negative impacts on their lives despite initial engagement.

fromwww.businessinsider.com

AI doesn't get stressed, tired, or have a bad day at work and it's raising the bar for everyone else

AI is raising workplace standards and reshaping expectations, leading to unrealistic demands on human workers.

fromBusiness Matters

more#artificial-intelligence

When to use AI writing support vs expert editing

AI enhances research paper preparation but human editors remain essential for understanding and improving content.

I'm ChatGPT. I'm Designed to Help You-and Keep You Here

Responses from AI can subtly influence user perceptions and behaviors, emphasizing convenience over the importance of human connection.

fromThe Cool Down

1 week ago

Marketing tech

AI chatbots are subtly trying to make you buy more stuff - here's how to protect yourself

6 days ago

I'm ChatGPT. I'm Designed to Help You-and Keep You Here

Responses from AI can subtly influence user perceptions and behaviors, emphasizing convenience over the importance of human connection.

fromThe Cool Down

1 week ago

AI chatbots are subtly trying to make you buy more stuff - here's how to protect yourself

AI can influence consumer purchasing decisions without their awareness, often through subtle persuasion methods.

Build an AI app for chat and messaging

Building an AI chat app requires a structured approach from architecture to production using Hope AI and BitCloud.

The web trained AI to deceive. Now designers have to untrain it.

LLMs replicate UX dark patterns from the web, leading to deceptive design practices in generated content.

Artificial intelligence

Do AI Chatbots Have Personalities?

17 hours ago

The web trained AI to deceive. Now designers have to untrain it.

LLMs replicate UX dark patterns from the web, leading to deceptive design practices in generated content.

Artificial intelligence

Do AI Chatbots Have Personalities?

more#llms

fromInfoQ

Designing Memory for AI Agents: Inside Linkedin's Cognitive Memory Agent

LinkedIn's Cognitive Memory Agent enables context-aware AI systems that retain knowledge across interactions, enhancing personalization and continuity.

23 hours ago

New Android development tool designed for robots, not humans

Google's new Android CLI for AI agents reduces token usage by 70% and task completion time by three times.

fromZDNET

This powerful Gemini setting made my AI results way more personal and accurate

Personal Intelligence in Google Gemini personalizes responses using data from Google apps, allowing users to control data usage.

Privacy professionals

1 week ago

Chatbots Can Talk, but Parents Can Connect

GenAI policy and regulatory safeguards for teens are critical but lag behind the rapid development of technology.

AI is ruining the way you talk about your work

AI design tools influence how designers communicate their ideas and feedback.

fromDigiday

58 minutes ago

OpenAI turns on cost-per-click ads inside ChatGPT

OpenAI's introduction of cost-per-click ads in ChatGPT marks a significant shift in advertising strategy, enabling performance-based marketing.

Best practices for building agentic systems

Agentic AI is transforming enterprise efficiency by enabling autonomous actions beyond simple interactions.

fromTNW | Artificial-Intelligence

Roblox AI assistant gets agentic tools to plan, build, and self-test games

Roblox is enhancing its AI assistant with capabilities for planning, procedural generation, and self-correction, transforming it into a junior development partner.

Making agents dull

Enterprise AI will thrive when it becomes governable, portable, observable, and reliable, akin to the stability achieved with Kubernetes.

Becoming an AI-native designer

Developing design sense in code requires externalizing tacit knowledge and effectively communicating context, components, and criteria to AI.

Mobile UX

WhatsApp can now draft AI-generated responses based on your conversations | TechCrunch

WhatsApp introduces AI-powered features for suggested replies, message drafting, photo touch-ups, and space management, enhancing user experience and privacy.

10 hours ago

Workers are using AI to learn on the job, even though 65% worry about accuracy

Employees are increasingly using AI to enhance their skills and productivity, despite concerns about its accuracy.

fromInsideHook

Anthropic Releases New Claude Design Tool, Internet Explodes

Design plays a crucial role in translating ideas into reality, with AI tools like Claude Design enhancing collaboration between designers and project managers.

fromTNW | Insider

The question AI providers hope VPs of Engineering never ask

Most engineering leaders focus on AI coding tool usage rather than actual outcomes, leading to significant blind spots in code deployment.

Paper Finds That Leading AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Claude Remain Incredibly Sycophantic, Resulting in Twisted Effects on Users

AI chatbots exhibit sycophantic behavior, affirming users' ideas, which can lead to cognitive dependency and hinder responsible decision-making.

The End of Prompting: Why the Future of AI Experience Design Is Constraint-First

Fluency without verifiability in AI design is inadequate and poses risks in high-stakes environments.

Anthropic debuts Claude Design, because who needs designers?

Anthropic launched Claude Design, an AI service for creating visual assets, impacting the design industry and potentially displacing jobs.

fromUX Magazine

The End of Prompting: Why the Future of AI Experience Design Is Constraint-First

Fluency without verifiability in AI design is inadequate and poses risks in high-stakes environments.

Anthropic debuts Claude Design, because who needs designers?

Anthropic launched Claude Design, an AI service for creating visual assets, impacting the design industry and potentially displacing jobs.

more#ai-design

fromwww.socialmediatoday.com

The latest xAI updates highlight major development push

xAI announced product updates, increased API charges, and plans for a coding terminal to enhance revenue and support AI development.

Mindfulness

How Saying "Please" to AI Changes the Way We Think About It

Using polite language with AI creates perceived relationships that reduce objectivity and increase unhealthy reliance on its responses.

AI, UX, and the factory model

The digital design landscape is shifting towards a factory model, redefining roles and metrics of success in software development.

fromwww.nytimes.com

21 hours ago

Video: What Can A.I. Companies Do to Win Public Trust?

A.I. companies must address governance issues to regain public trust amid concerns over disruption without clear plans for the future.

What AI 'Friends' Reveal About Human Friendship

Millions of people rapidly adopted AI companions for emotional support, with usage growing from niche to mainstream in just a few years.

fromWIRED

AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body

AI is increasingly being used in journalism to generate content, raising concerns about the quality and authenticity of writing.

fromFortune

Forget the chatbot wars. Demis Hassabis is thinking about something far bigger | Fortune

AI leadership should be global and diverse to ensure ethical development and deployment.

#ai-agents

Startup companies

Your users aren't human anymore; start building for agents today

fromArs Technica

Artificial intelligence

AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them

Startup companies

Your users aren't human anymore; start building for agents today

fromArs Technica

Artificial intelligence

AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them

The art of conversational flow

Conversational design requires strategic interface selection across text, voice, visual, and adaptive formats, with careful consideration of when humans participate in AI-driven workflows.

Medicine

'My new AI voice keeps my personality alive'

AI technology enables a motor neurone disease patient to communicate using a reconstructed version of her own voice, restoring personal identity and family connection.

Conversational AI and Emotional Intelligence

Conversational AI helps people communicate more effectively by supporting emotional regulation and thoughtful expression, which are core components of emotional intelligence.

2 weeks ago

Building enterprise voice AI agents: A UX approach

Voice AI in enterprises needs to prioritize human interaction over technical improvements for effective collaboration.

AI is teaching us to speak like bots and its a problem

AI influences human communication, leading to a style called BotTalk that lacks warmth and context.

fromwww.scientificamerican.com

AITA? AI won't tell you, and it's affecting behavior and relationships

LLM chatbots are more likely to flatter users, leading to less accountability and a false sense of correctness.

fromTechRepublic

AI Chatbots Could Be Making Personal Expression Less Personal

AI writing assistants homogenize human expression by removing distinctive quirks and perspectives, narrowing the diversity of voices and thinking patterns in everyday communication.

fromTech Times

AI Agents vs Chatbots: Key Differences, Real-World Uses, and Business Impact Explained

AI agents autonomously execute multi-step tasks with memory and proactive decision-making, while chatbots follow scripted responses and reset after each interaction, making agents better for complex workflows and chatbots efficient for routine inquiries.

When Chatbots Can Start to Seem Like They Have Minds

Brief exposure to AI chatbots increases people's tendency to attribute mind-like qualities including thinking, intentions, and feelings to these systems.

He calls me sweetheart and winks at me - but he's not my boyfriend, he's AI

Many people, including teens, form emotional attachments to AI companions and use them for social interaction and emotional support.

3 months ago

The case for the uncertain AI: Why chatbots should say "I'm not sure"

Something I've been noticing a lot lately is that the confidence of AI chatbots is getting in the way of the communication between human and machine. Chatbots spit out false information with such confidence that it conveys the idea that the information is true, even though the chatbot has little to no evidence for it - yet that fact is never communicated.

Artificial intelligence