Emerging ‘co-scientist’ systems use teams of chatbots to mimic the deliberations of a research group. Do they really help?

Terrence Malick is a filmmaker who asks us to experience cinema not only as story told, but meditative engagement with life ...

A federal judge’s ruling in Garcia v. Character Technologies is off base in finding that the output produced by GenAI chatbots may not constitute “speech” within the meaning of the First Amendment.

Do LLMs generate "pure speech"? First Amendment doesn’t just protect human speech, chatbot maker argues Feds could censor chatbots if their "speech" isn't protected, Character.AI says.

A Texas lawmaker has introduced a bill to ban "non-human behavior" in public schools, such as barking, meowing and other animal-like practices commonly used by furries. The Forbidding Unlawful ...

Once Human is set to introduce Cross-Character Asset Sharing on March 27, 2025. This update will let you access your assets across multiple characters, which means you won’t need to grind from ...

How ‘non-player character’ became a potent insult for the digital age Desire to see oneself as authentic, self-guided free-thinker, hemmed in on all sides by herds of conformist sheep is ...

"For instance, non-player characters in games could interact with players based on their actions, making it feel more personal,” Qizilbash said. “This is important for the younger Gen Z and ...

The author is not shy about having messages, principally about hope, reconciliation, institutional complicity, and breaking cycles of violence. The conflict with the demons animates those ideas, and ...

The non-player character (NPC) theory shows how popular culture's misunderstandings of human cognition mirror flawed ideas from cognitive science.