Word of the day: AnthropomorphizationWord of the day: Anthropomorphization, the act of giving human traits to non-human entities, is a phenomenon discovered in culture, literat...
29 Jan, 2026, 11.20 PM IST
Humanoid robot AIDOL falls flat during debut in Moscow; company explains incidentA Russian company's humanoid robot, AIDOL, fell during its unveiling in Moscow. Organizers cited calibration and lighting issues for the mi...
14 Nov, 2025, 04.19 AM IST
MIT study reveals chilling cognitive cost of ChatGPT on children: What can parents do?A recent MIT Media Lab study has raised concerns about the cognitive impact of AI use among young people. Researchers found that frequent r...
13 Oct, 2025, 07.07 PM IST
ChatGPT, Gemini & others are doing something terrible to your brainGrowing concerns are emerging about the mental health impact of AI platforms like ChatGPT. Reports indicate potential risks, including decr...
04 Jul, 2025, 12.54 PM IST
Are AI chatbots the new mafia? Mother sues Character.ai and Google for her son’s deathA Florida mother is suing Character.ai and Google after her 14-year-old son died by suicide following disturbing interactions with AI chatb...
26 May, 2025, 09.57 AM IST
Why AI can't take over creative writingChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) learned from a huge corpus of text from the internet. It predicts the probability of the next word ...
06 Apr, 2025, 06.08 PM IST
Humanising AI could lead us to dehumanise ourselvesFor most of our history, we believed empathy was a uniquely human trait - a special ability that set us apart from machines and other anima...
21 Oct, 2024, 01.12 PM IST
Can you be emotionally reliant on an AI voice? OpenAI says yesThe voice feature was announced this spring as part of the ChatGPT app's newest model, known as GPT-4o. The new version of ChatGPT was unve...
10 Aug, 2024, 10.22 AM IST
One year in and ChatGPT already has us doing its biddingTrolling a product hyped as an almost-human conversationalist, tricking it into revealing its essential bleep-bloopiness, I felt like the h...
20 Dec, 2023, 10.02 AM IST
X: The Brand, the Generation and Elon MuskTwitter has unveiled a new logo and a name change to 'X', which reflects the company's connection to Generation X. The letter X is versatil...
30 Jul, 2023, 10.44 AM IST
X: The brand, the generation and Elon MuskOn Monday, Twitter unveiled its new name, and with it, a new logo. The unfurling of the new branding had the same chaotic energy Elon Musk ...
30 Jul, 2023, 09.59 AM IST
How our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with AI chatbotsChatbots like ChatGPT raise important new questions about how artificial intelligence will shape our lives.
18 Mar, 2023, 03.23 PM IST
Do mind your language, and of others tooHe summed up his mistrust of the verbal in the famous conclusion to his 1921 magnum opus, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, 'Whereof we canno...
26 Jun, 2022, 12.44 AM IST
The future of voice: A smarter bot can make conversation less frustrating, more intuitiveYou could start a conversation with someone about the weather, and the next minute you are talking about your favourite sports team’s perfo...
17 Aug, 2021, 11.34 AM IST
Man's best friend: What makes your cute little furry companion special?Decoding the most significant interspecies partnerships in history.
20 Feb, 2020, 05.48 PM IST
Spoons are GST special for IndiansIt is no surprise then that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council has also acknowledged the spoon's special status and reduced the rate ...
12 Jun, 2017, 01.30 AM IST
What You SeeWe read that one of the world's leading primatologists, Jane Goodall, used to say that every time she looked into the eyes of a chimpanzee,...
10 May, 2014, 04.05 AM IST