In October 1984 I arrived at Oxford University, trailing a large steamer trunk containing a couple of changes of clothing and about five dozen textbooks. I had a freshly minted bachelor’s degree in ...

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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 ...

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.

The C++ APIs deal only in char* or binary. Per comments on top of encodeText, it appears that a wide character string is expected to be translated to UTF8 before being passed to the API. I tried ...

Last month, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collective reported that dark energy is evolving—specifically weakening—and it could help provide the first observational evidence of string ...

I created an enum class in C++, and set the values of the enumerators based by using std::bit_cast on string literals to the underling type of the enum class (admittedly usually a very bad idea to ...

How can you determine someone's true character? Is it possible for someone to hide something from you without it being reflected in their behavior or facial expressions? originally appeared on Quora: ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Google hired the co-founders of Character.ai, a prominent artificial intelligence start-up whose personalized chatbots were popular among young people, reigniting concerns that even ...