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 ...

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Ah, to be a character actor. No, you may not ever lead a big blockbuster movie or get a project greenlit based on your name alone. But you will enjoy a wide-ranging career playing all kinds of ...

Abstract: Stroke segmentation is a fundamental technique for various character analysis and synthesis applications. However, existing methods often face challenges such as over-segmentation, ...

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.

After school, Karandeep Anand often finds his 6-year-old daughter deep in conversation with an AI chatbot as she eats snacks at their kitchen counter. She’s too young to type—let alone have her own ...

Having "main character energy" means acting as if your life is a movie. You're always on the verge of cinematic transformation, with a deeply aesthetic sense of self, perfectly timed lighting, and a ...

ABSTRACT: In this paper, a novel multilingual OCR (Optical Character Recognition) method for scanned papers is provided. Current open-source solutions, like Tesseract, offer extremely high accuracy ...