Neowin News Feed for: Chatbots

AI chatbots are causing suicides, psychosis, and grooming children, AGs warn Microsoft

Paul Hill — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:10:01 +0000

Microsoft and other firms were warned by US AGs that their AI chatbots are linked to suicide, psychosis, and child grooming, demanding 16 safety safeguards. Read more...

Children are forming emotional bonds with AI chatbots, report says

Paul Hill — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 08:58:01 +0000

A new report from Internet Matters has found that children are forming emotional bonds with AI, with vulnerable kids much more likely to form bonds. Read more...

Meta's chatbot is straight up telling mushroom hunters to cook up poison

David Uzondu — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:22:01 +0000

Meta's latest AI experiment caused chaos in a mushroom foraging group by advising users to cook up a toxic mushroom. Read more...

Microsoft just can't seem to get AI chatbots right

Usama Jawad — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:33:37 +0000

Microsoft latest endeavor into the AI-powered chatbot space has proven that the company is still grappling with the inherent challenges of the technology, such as curation, biasness, and accuracy. Read more...

Bot Framework Composer is a new open-source tool by Microsoft for visual bot development

Abhishek Baxi — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 15:00:31 +0000

Bot Framework Composer is an open-source tool for visual bot development. The tool is available as a desktop application for Windows, Mac, and Linux as well as a web-based component. Read more...

New Microsoft patent reveals human-like chatbots and conversational agents

Abhishek Baxi — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 19:36:01 +0000

A new patent - Linguistic Style Matching Agent - granted to Microsoft reveals that the company is working on conversational agents that mirror users' conversational style and/or facial expressions. Read more...

Microsoft builds the world's largest transformer-based language generation model

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:38:01 +0000

Boasting over 17 billion parameters and 78 transformer layers, Microsoft's new Turing Natural Language Generation model outperforms many state-of-the-art models available currently. Read more...

Google's AI-based chatbot potentially surpasses all other chatbots available today

Ather Fawaz — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:26:01 +0000

Google's Meena, a chatbot, sporting a 2.6 billion parameter neural conversational model trained on 341GB of public social media data surpasses all other chatbots on the new SSA metric. Read more...

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Google's Chatbase now offers Virtual Agent Modeling to help AI meet customer needs

Hamza Jawad — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 18:52:01 +0000

Google's Chatbase was first introduced as a chatbot analytics platform. It now also offers a service to model AI-powered virtual agents in order to drastically improve customer service experiences. Read more...

Gartner: 37% of organizations now use AI in some form

Paul Hill — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 08:18:01 +0000

Gartner's 2019 CIO Survey has revealed that 37% of organizations around the world are now using AI in some form or another. Some popular use cases include chatbots and fraud protection. Read more...

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