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The start-up, which creates A.I. companions, faces lawsuits from families who have accused Character.AI’s chatbots of leading teenagers to kill themselves. By Natallie Rocha and Kashmir Hill Natallie ...

Movies would be nothing without the characters that inhabit them. But while some roles feel merely functional, the best movie characters can transform a film – offering complex moral dilemmas, ...

Main character syndrome is the perception that your life is a story or a movie where you’re the central character. A term that was born on social media, it’s not a true syndrome or mental disorder.

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Donald Trump has a “character” problem. In an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention on July 31, Trump claimed, falsely, that his opponent, Kamala Harris, had identified ...

There’s no single way for a woman to be a badass—she can kick ass like the Bride (Uma Thurman) in “Kill Bill,” solve a crime like Clarice (Jodie Foster) in “The Silence of the Lambs,” or lead a ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 22 - Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab has appointed Noam Shazeer, the former head of startup Character.AI and before that a long-time Google researcher, to co-lead its main AI ...

Yet another buzzy AI startup has been taken off the playing field. This time, Google has hired back the AI leadership of Character.AI, including co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas. Both ...

It started with a mouse—and thank God they didn’t name him Mortimer. Walt Disney may have whiffed it with the name he originally proposed for Mickey, but his eye for character design was clear from ...