But let’s not pretend that pretend buddies are just about helping you connect with family and friends.

More time spent in Meta’s apps means more ads shown to its users."

And it’s an approach that seems to be paying off.

(Now’s your chance to add Swift and Mario to your group chats.)

Earlier this month,actor Tom Hanks warned people about a dental adthat used his likeness without his approval.

“Hanks told his 9.5 million Instagram followers.

“There’s a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me.

I have nothing to do with it.”

Hanks in an April podcastpredicted the perils posed by AI.

Anybody can now re-create themselves at any age they are by way of AI or deepfake technology … Of course, he was right about all those discussions.

Here are the other doings in AI worth your attention.

So what’s it like to talk to ChatGPT?

“But you’re definitely still talking to a machine.

The response time … can be extremely slow, and the connection can fail restarting the app helps.

A few times it abruptly cut off the conversation (I thought only rude humans did that!)”

Maybe the chatbots are getting more human after all.

Goodbye, human focus groups; hello, synthetic humans?

Humans aren’t cut out of the loop completely.

So, the end goal may be to just have the bots talking among themselves.

But there’s a hitch: Training AI characters is no easy feat.

Deloitte’s TL;DR?

And if they don’t?

Deloitte lists the damage from ethical missteps, including reputational harm, human damage and regulatory penalties.

The researcher also found that financial damage and employee dissatisfaction go hand in hand.

Still, it’s encouraging to see what could be possible with new AI technologies as the research continues.

But I covered that in theAug.

19 edition of AI and You.

Current developments aim to be able to entrust a machine with complex tasks previously delegated to a human.