It’s a familiar feeling: You start a text message, and your phone’s auto-complete function suggests several choices for the next word, ranging from banal to hilarious. “I love …” you, or coffee? Or ...

Recently, my wife was texting with a friend who lives in Singapore. The news from the other side of the world turned out to be that kids there had discovered “six seven.” On Halloween, our friend ...

TRAVERSE CITY — An artificial intelligence tool that provides instant feedback on meeting performance took home top honors at this month’s TCNewTech pitch competition. Phatic, a personal AI tool that ...

ChatGPT, a groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) generative large language model (OpenAI, 2023), has recently garnered widespread attention due to its adeptness in various natural language ...

Hey, anytime. No biggie. Don't worry about it. Psycholinguistic research reveals that we choose our gratitude acknowledgements pragmatically, proving that such language isn't phatic (devoid of content ...

There are two types of people that read that headline: the sickos that see it and go ‘yes, ha ha, yes!’ and the weary, jaded folk that go ‘oh, please, no’. But I’m here to tell you that, actually, ...

Changes in observed phatic behaviors, such as movements or vocal pitch during music interaction therapy could provide markers for a person's mental state and help therapists to diagnose and monitor ...