EditorialAt Google, Aidan Gomez was part of a small research team that designed the Transformer, the fundamental technology used to create chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Bard. (Nathan Cyprys/The New York Times)
EditorialA student uses Khanmigo, a new tutoring bot, for help with a math problem at Khan Lab School in Palo Alto, Calif., May 22, 2023. (Ulysses Ortega/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left, the senior executives of OpenAI: chief technology officer Mira Murat, chief executive officer Sam Altman, president Greg Brockman, and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, in San Francisco on March 13, 2023. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialPi, an A.I. tool that debuted this week, is a twist on the new wave of chatbots: It assists people with their wellness and emotions. (Janice Chang/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Turing test used to be the gold standard for proving machine intelligence. This generation of bots is racing past it. We need to stay calm — and develop a new test. (Ricardo Rey/The New York Times)
EditorialNoam Shazeer, left, and Daniel De Freitas, the founders of Character.AI, a company that allows users of its website to converse with sophisticated chatbots that are trained to talk like humans, living or dead, real or imagined, in Palo Alto, Calif., Jan. 6, 2023. (Ian C. Bates/The New York Times)
EditorialJeremy Howard, a researcher in artificial intelligence who asked his young daughter to use a cutting-edge chat bot system, in Redcliffe, Australia, Dec. 8, 2022. (David Kelly/The New York Times)