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AI CHATBOTS WITH THE ABILITY TO ANSWER YOUR MOST PERSONAL QUESTIONS ARE TRANSFORMING THE MENTAL HEALTH SPACE. BUT ARE AUTOMATED THERAPISTS GOOD ENOUGH TO REPLACE THE HUMAN VERSIONS? LOTTIE O’CONOR FINDS OUT

‘‘ I would like to make my own witness statement,” said Christopher Pelkey as he stood before Judge Todd Lang in Arizona’s Maricopa County Superior Court, dressed slightly incongruously in a green hoo

WITH SO MUCH HYPE CIRCULATING ABOUT HOWWITH SO MUCH HYPE CIRCULATING ABOUT HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD—BUT NOT A LOT OF CONCRETE SUCCESSES—HERE ARE SIX LESSONS YOU CAN ACTUALLY USE

Elon Musk is rarely out of the news these days. Widely acknowledged to be the world’s richest man, he’s also known for running a number of major companies. The trouble is, some of those companies have

Counting the instances of the letter “r” in “strawberry”. Generating an image to show kicking the bucket, monkey business or another idiom – or no elephants in a room. These are all examples of viral

● ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS neither artificial (made by ...