Sydney: Within two days of launching its AI companions last month, Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot app Grok became the most popular app in Japan. Companion chatbots are more powerful and seductive than ever. Users can have real-time voice or text conversations with the characters. Many have onscreen digital avatars complete with facial expressions, body language … Read more
Reports are emerging across the United States, Europe and Asia of people suffering breakdowns after extended sessions with chatbots. What makes these cases alarming is that some involved individuals with no prior history of mental illness. Doctors are calling the phenomenon “AI psychosis” or “ChatGPT psychosis,” a label for the sudden onset of delusions, paranoia … Read more
Texas: Recently, I found myself pouring my heart out, not to a human, but to a chatbot named Wysa on my phone. It nodded – virtually – asked me how I was feeling and gently suggested trying breathing exercises. As a neuroscientist, I couldn’t help but wonder: Was I actually feeling better, or was I … Read more
New York: Well-known AI chatbots can be configured to routinely answer health queries with false information that appears authoritative, complete with fake citations from real medical journals, Australian researchers have found. Without better internal safeguards, widely used AI tools can be easily deployed to churn out dangerous health misinformation at high volumes, they warned in … Read more
Lara Lewington looks at the pros and cons of AI therapy apps. Source link
New Delhi: A study published in the BMJ journal claims that artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, including large language models (LLMs) and chatbots, exhibit a decline in cognitive abilities over time, much like humans. This finding emerges as users increasingly turn to AI tools for medical diagnoses due to their ability to simplify complex medical jargon. … Read more
New Delhi: While the general consensus on AI “hallucinations” – the generation of plausible but false information – are concerning, scientists are increasingly recognising their potential for driving innovation and discovery, report has said, adding that these unexpected outputs from AI models are proving surprisingly useful in fields ranging from medicine to climate science. According … Read more
New York: Komal Vilas Thatkare says she doesn’t have anyone to ask about her most private health questions. “There are only men in my home – no ladies,” said the 32-year-old mother and housewife in Mumbai. “I don’t speak to anyone here. So I used this app as it helps me in my personal problems.” … Read more
By Devashish Mamgain India’s adoption of smartphones, spurred on by a “Digital India” campaign and the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to smartphone technologies being embraced by necessity and force, resulting in almost 600 million user figures in 2021. Integrating life services like Unified Payments Interface (UPI), Aadhaar, CoWin, and WhatsApp HealthDesk into mobile phones has … Read more
by Priyadarshi Mohapatra Two years ago, the world witnessed the biggest humanitarian tragedy in the form of COVID -19 that not only changed the way we lived our everyday life but also shuddered many established norms and some of the best-known practices. It also led to the seismic shift in routine care and scheduled hospital … Read more