On a crisp December day in 2024, deep inside a virtual emulation of a 1960s mainframe, an antiquated line blinked back to life: HOW DO YOU DO. PLEASE TELL ME YOUR PROBLEM. This was ELIZA herself — not ...

Teachers say they want to equip high school students to drive artificial intelligence, rather than be mere passengers steered by chatbots.

I pushed eight free AI chatbots to their limits to find the best AI chatbots of 2026. To explore our top picks, check out ZDNET's chatbot-by-chatbot guide.

Chatbots aren’t new. In fact, you could almost consider early chatbots to be a precursor to the AI we know today. However, as more companies are turning to AI to give their chatbots a much-needed ...