Much has been made of the fact that the year's most recent breakout hit, an idiosyncratic role-playing game called Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, was made by a small team. It's a tempting narrative in this age of blockbuster mega-flops, live-service games and eye-watering budgets: scrappy team makes a lengthy, unusual and beautiful thing, sells it for 40, and everybody wins. The Guardian's journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Sandfall Interactive, the game's French developer, comprises around 30 people, but as Rock Paper Shotgun points out, there are many more listed in the game's credits – from a Korean animation team to the outsourced quality assurance testers, and the localisation and performance staff who give the game and its story heft and emotional believability.

If Franz Kafka had lived to give notes on Playing Kafka, a new video game adaptation of his work, a big one might have been: where's the sex? What this interactive version of The Trial has in branching narrative, it lacks in sexuality: one can imagine the author-cum-playtester apoplectic at the absence of sadomasochism and lust. Overall, the choices made in this literal and lightly interactive adaptation seem calibrated to what is appropriate to leave running on a museum iPad. Simple binary choices and touchscreen controls set the bar to entry low, and there is no imagery to scandalise a visiting classroom. Playing Kafka, released just weeks before the centenary of Kafka's death, is a collaboration between the Goethe-Institut and the developer Charles Games (a studio, not a person).

She doesn't actually exist, but, if things go my way, she's going to be the world's first "Miss AI". I recently created her image on a website that generates AI faces and then entered her into a beauty pageant. Now I am sitting back in anticipation of netting the 20,000 grand prize. What fresh hell is this, you ask? Well, I regret to inform you that AI beauty pageants are a thing now.

On a recent afternoon Jonas Thiel, a socioeconomics major at a college in northern Germany, spent more than an hour chatting online with some of the left-wing political philosophers he had been studying. These were not the actual philosophers but virtual recreations, brought to conversation, if not quite life, by sophisticated chatbots on a website called Character.AI. Mr. Thiel's favorite was a bot that imitated Karl Kautsky, a Czech-Austrian socialist who died before World War Two. When Mr. Thiel asked Kautsky's digital avatar to provide some advice for modern-day socialists struggling to rebuild the worker's movement in Germany, Kautsky-bot suggested that they launch a newspaper. "They can use it not only as a means of spreading socialist propaganda, which is in short supply in Germany for the time being, but also to organize working class people," the bot said. Kautsky-bot went on to argue that the working classes would eventually "come to their senses" and embrace a modern-day Marxist revolution.

In its early weeks, ChatGPT, the wildly popular artificial intelligence tool from OpenAI, has offered up a potential new model for online search. The chatbot responds to questions about topics such as political science and computer programming with detailed explanations, and its question-and-answer format means users can drill down until they fully understand. Users doing similar research on Google must typically scan search results and peruse various websites until they arrive at their own conclusions. ChatGPT, by contrast, delivers a decisive (or at least decisive-sounding) answer in seconds. Alphabet Inc.'s Google has been essentially untouchable in search, but a handful of companies, some founded by former Googlers, think that's about to change.

Apple's Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa are some best examples of AI-powered applications. ChatGPT, an AI chatbot, is the latest AI tool that redefine the use of AI. Artificial intelligence, commonly known as AI, is almost everywhere in the modern world. Services such as ChatGPT to how Google Photos erases the background in a photo are some best examples of the use of AI. With the advancement of AI in electronic products such as speakers, TVs, and more, humans can interact and get work done and answer queries in no time.

A new chatbot start-up from two top artificial intelligence talents lets anyone strike up a conversation with impersonations of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Albert Einstein and Sherlock Holmes. Registered users type in messages and get responses. They can also create a chatbot of their own on Character.ai, "There were reports of possible voter fraud and I wanted an investigation," the Trump bot said. The start-up's two founders helped create Google's artificial intelligence project LaMDA, which Google keeps closely guarded while it develops safeguards against social risks.

AI and InWorld AI have all been founded by ex-Google employees. After years of buildup, AI appears to be advancing rapidly with the release of systems like the text-to-image generator DALL-E, which was quickly followed by text-to-video and text-to-3D video tools announced by Meta and Google in recent weeks. Industry insiders say this recent brain drain is a partly a response to corporate labs growing increasingly closed off, in response to pressure to responsibly deploy AI. At smaller companies, engineers are freer to push ahead, which could lead to fewer safeguards.

Milan Jaram describes himself as an artist who "horrifies your cozy childhood memories with dark twists on your favorite shows, cartoons and pop culture." With his AI-fication of Simpsons characters, Jaram has succeeded handily. AI Homer is not looking happy. A muscle-bound, rage-filled Homer looks ready to Hulk-smash his way through Springfield; Marge has morphed into the bride of Frankenstein; and Krusty the Clown's menacing face will be the nightmare of children and clown PR teams everywhere. Mischievous Bart and Millhouse, meanwhile, now have sad, hollow eyes drained of any youthful whimsy, and good-natured Ned Flanders looks totally defeated.

Millions of people use Linux every day, but we rarely stop to think about how the operating system feels about it. Wouldn't it be nice to know what Linux really thinks about open source, Windows, Macs, and the command line? Until now, this has impossible. But thanks to a new AI chat tool, we're able to find out. Two weeks ago, a website called Character.AI opened a public beta that allows visitors to create a chat bot based on any character they can imagine.