You may have seen on social media different versions of the so-called "five-date rule." Before you take five, so to speak, and follow it, consider its rationale and limitations.

More than two in five would feel confident booking a holiday through AI. But with this sort of technology, what you get out of it will depend greatly on what you put in.

Abstract: Query-by-example spoken term detection (QbE-STD) refers to the search for an audio query in a repository of audio utterances. A common approach for QbE-STD involves computing a matching ...

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How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Jessica and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, I am a 23-year-old asexual woman and am comfortable with my life. The ...

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Jessica and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, I am a man and every time I try to introduce a new partner to what I ...

Despite the rapid adoption of LLM chatbots, little is known about how they are used. We document the growth of ChatGPT’s consumer product from its launch in November 2022 through July 2025, when it ...

A patent recently filed by Google outlines how an AI assistant may use at least five real-world contextual signals, including identifying related intents, to influence answers and generate natural ...