AI-informed therapy programs could help assess a person’s mental and emotional health and point them toward correct resources, as well as suggest some initial strategies to help. Talking to an AI for ...

Talking robots learn to manage human interruptions Johns Hopkins computer scientists designed an interruption-handling system to facilitate more natural conversations with social robots ...

Computer communication The first computers were the size of rooms and required humans to communicate with them with hole-punched notecards. From there, machines evolved to communicate via binary code ...

Don’t Talk to People Like They’re Chatbots AI could make our human interactions blander, more biased, or ruder.

Siri and Alexa are good, but no one would mistake them for a human being. Google’s newest project, however, could change that. Called Tacotron 2, the latest attempt to make computers talk like people ...

New technology from researchers at Duke University might one day help people unable to talk due to neurological disorders regain the ability to communicate through a brain-computer interface.

Joseph Weizenbaum’s underrated book “Computer Power and Human Reason” cautioned against confusing people with machines.

A new landmark BCI study led by Stanford Medicine neuroscientists demonstrates a brain-computer interface capable of decoding ...

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