Engineering student Yiwei Cheng was 21 when she created her "AI boyfriend" Chad. "AI companions can help people feel less lonely by acting like friends, but they can also make people feel distant and disconnected," Dr Ciriello said. "I didn't believe AI could emulate a romantic partner until I saw its impact on her life," Dr Gao said. "Participants often …
There's something you should know about oligarchs. "They really don't want to be called oligarchs," explains Jeffrey Winters, a professor of political science at Chicago's Northwestern University. It's now eight years since Salena Zito made probably the most pellucid observation of all about Trump: "The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally." …