Pick up an August 2025 issue of Vogue and you'll come across an advertisement for the brand Guess featuring a stunning model. Yet tucked away in small print is a startling admission: She isn't real.

In a recent preprint study, researchers put GPT-4.5 to the test—not to solve complex problems or write code, but to do something far more human: hold a conversation. The results were impressive. When ...

Taking effect on Jan. 1, 2026, SB 243 is directed at regulating AI-powered companion chatbots (with limited exceptions) that engage users across multiple interactions, with a multi-pronged approach.

English computer scientist Alan Turing is most known for a thought experiment first devised in 1950 —- can a computer pass as a human?

For decades, fashion images have been retouched. But this isn’t airbrushing a real person; it’s a “person” created from scratch, a digital composite of data points, engineered to appear as a beautiful ...

AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says the next milestone toward artificial general intelligence won't be about sounding human, but about whether an AI agent can independently and legally create real economic ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Tamilla Triantoro, Quinnipiac University (THE CONVERSATION) Pick up an August 2025 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) For decades, fashion images have been retouched. But this isn’t airbrushing a real ...