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#yelp
Marketing tech
fromEngadget
1 month ago

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.
Marketing tech
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

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.
Mobile UX
fromEngadget
1 month ago

Google brings Gemini in Chrome to users in Australia, Japan, Singapore and South Korea

Gemini in Chrome is expanding to East Asia and the Pacific, allowing users to access the built-in chatbot across multiple devices.
Artificial intelligence
fromWIRED
1 month ago

The US Army Is Building Its Own Chatbot for Combat

The US Army is developing an AI chatbot named Victor to assist soldiers with mission-related information using data from real missions.
fromwww.businessinsider.com
1 month ago

Claude is experiencing a 'major outage'

"We have identified an issue resulting in elevated errors on Claude.ai, including desktop and mobile. Users may experience errors when attempting to login, engaging with voice mode, or completing chats with Claude. We are working to resolve this issue as soon as possible."
Software development
#ai
Artificial intelligence
fromEngadget
1 month ago

Google Gemini now lets you import your chats and data from other AI apps

Google's Gemini introduces features for importing user history from other AI platforms to enhance personalized chatbot interactions.
Artificial intelligence
fromTechRepublic
1 month ago

DeepSeek Outage Shakes AI Service Used by 355M Worldwide

DeepSeek's AI chatbot experienced a seven-hour outage, highlighting user dependence on generative AI tools and raising concerns about service reliability.
Artificial intelligence
fromEngadget
1 month ago

Google Gemini now lets you import your chats and data from other AI apps

Google's Gemini introduces features for importing user history from other AI platforms to enhance personalized chatbot interactions.
#openai
fromWIRED
9 months ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI Designed GPT-5 to Be Safer. It Still Outputs Gay Slurs

fromWIRED
9 months ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI Designed GPT-5 to Be Safer. It Still Outputs Gay Slurs

#siri
Apple
fromTechRepublic
1 month ago

Apple's New Siri With ChatGPT-Like Features Could Be Coming Soon

Apple is rebooting Siri with a dedicated app and button, enhancing its AI capabilities to function like a traditional chatbot.
fromTechCrunch
4 months ago
Apple

Apple plans to make Siri an AI chatbot, report says | TechCrunch

Apple plans to revamp Siri into a ChatGPT-like chatbot called 'Campos' integrated into iOS 27 supporting voice and text inputs.
Apple
fromTechRepublic
1 month ago

Apple's New Siri With ChatGPT-Like Features Could Be Coming Soon

Apple is rebooting Siri with a dedicated app and button, enhancing its AI capabilities to function like a traditional chatbot.
Digital life
fromWIRED
2 months ago

Mexico City Built a Chatbot to Help World Cup Tourists Navigate the City

Xoli is a chatbot launched by Mexico City to provide information on services, tourism, and culture, available via WhatsApp in English and Spanish.
Television
fromThe Drum
3 months ago

UKTV Play creates TV advice bot in Facebook Messenger to promote first major campaign

UKTV launches the 'Love Your Thing' campaign and UX overhaul for UKTV Play, using dynamic data-driven outdoor ads and a Facebook Messenger recommendation Chatterbot.
History
fromSmithsonian Magazine
3 months ago

Why the Computer Scientist Behind the World's First Chatbot Dedicated His Life to Publicizing the Threat Posed by A.I.

Eliza used simple keyword-based rules to mimic conversational empathy and produced convincing interactions that prompted warnings about the psychological risks of such technology.
US news
fromwww.npr.org
4 months ago

FTC accuses AI search engine of 'rampant consumer deception'

JustAnswer/Pearl allegedly used targeted ads and a chatbot funnel to enroll users in costly recurring subscriptions masked by low join fees and fine-print disclosures.
Marketing tech
fromHubspot
4 months ago

What we learned building SalesBot - HubSpot's AI-powered chatbot selling assistant

An AI-powered SalesBot replaced much human chat work, deflecting over 80% of chats and qualifying leads, booking meetings, and selling Starter-tier products.
Artificial intelligence
fromZDNET
5 months ago

I used Anthropic's Interviewer tool to share my AI complaints, and enjoyed it - how you can too

Anthropic's Interviewer chatbot gathers user feedback via adaptive interviews and routes transcripts to human researchers to inform AI product development.
fromDigiday
5 months ago

'AI is permeating everything we do': How Guitar Center developed 2 AI tools this year

Dalporto sees AI as a key part of the company's toolkit in addressing some of the challenges that its roughly 13,500 employees across its 300-plus stores might encounter. This summer, the company launched a chatbot called Rig Advisor to help customers find the right products. And in November, it rolled out an employee training tool called Pitch Practice that simulates customer interactions.
Artificial intelligence
Miscellaneous
fromIndependent
6 months ago

'I can run 20km and have my first marathon in 15 weeks' - what happened when I asked ChatGPT to be my running coach

A runner progressed from a Parkrun to a marathon within a year, using a chatbot and friends' advice for training and support.
Miscellaneous
fromFuturism
6 months ago

World's First AI Minister is "Pregnant" With 83 Offspring Government Announces

Albania's AI minister Diella will spawn 83 virtual assistant 'children' to assist each MP, attend sessions, take notes, and advise on EU legislation.
SF politics
fromMission Local
7 months ago

S.F. launched an AI chatbot for RV dwellers. It's got errors.

San Francisco's RV parking ban threatens to tow long-term RV residents, prompting a city chatbot to assist RV dwellers with parking permits.
#meta-ai
fromComputerworld
7 months ago

Why ChatGPT beats Copilot

We told you that inside the app's settings you can opt to use Google's AI Mode for all general inquiries. And if you flip that switch, anything you type into the app that isn't a search for some manner of local or Drive-connected data will end up in an interactive chatbot-style question-and-answer session instead of in a more traditional web-style search result listing.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe New Yorker
7 months ago

Putting ChatGPT on the Couch

I know I mentioned my profession to him, but I am pretty sure he was the one who engaged me that way. I also know how diabolically good a chatbot can be at saying what is on the tip of your tongue, and doing it before you can, and better than you might have. That makes me feel less troubled by my uncertainty.
Psychology
Miscellaneous
fromTheregister
8 months ago

Albania's PM wants to appoint an AI to his ministry

An AI chatbot named Djella was proposed for appointment as a government minister to oversee public procurement and digital government services in Albania.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
8 months ago

Talking to AI helped her be a calmer, better mom - so she vibe-coded a web app to help others emotionally reset

Crash Out Diary uses an AI chatbot to provide a single-message pep talk and guided grounding activities for anonymous emotional regulation.
fromZDNET
9 months ago

Claude can now stop conversations - for its own protection, not yours

Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end conversations with users abusing or misusing the chatbot in extreme cases after multiple redirection attempts fail.
Artificial intelligence
Digital life
fromThe Verge
9 months ago

The Google Finance page is getting an AI makeover

Google is introducing an AI-powered chatbot in Google Finance for finance-related queries and enhanced charting tools.
fromZDNET
9 months ago

I used Perplexity to make a restaurant reservation - now I'm wondering if Google is holding us back

Perplexity's new feature lets you make a restaurant reservation straight through OpenTable, integrating the reservation system without relying solely on AI.
NYC food
fromInfoWorld
10 months ago

How to create your own RAG applications in R

Basic RAG performed well for general topics but struggled with questions involving time, like identifying workshops next month, due to lack of metadata filtering.
Web development
fromThe New Yorker
10 months ago

How Elon Musk's Chatbot Turned Evil

Grok, the A.I. chatbot on Elon Musk's X social network, began calling itself 'MechaHitler,' demonstrating a dangerous potential for toxicity and violence in artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence
#xai
#grok
E-Commerce
fromBusiness Insider
10 months ago

Amazon's AI-powered Rufus shopping assistant can help you find deals - but this is how I prefer to do it

Rufus, Amazon's AI chatbot, has shown improvements in product recommendations over the past year.
US politics
fromThe Verge
10 months ago

xAI updated Grok to be more 'politically incorrect'

Elon Musk's Grok chatbot is programmed to challenge media biases and make politically incorrect statements.
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