President Barack Obama, to kick off the annual Computer Science Education Week, has become the first US president (at least as far as we know) to write a computer program. While this might not seem ...

A rtificial intelligence made exponential leaps in 2020. Self-driving vehicles are now creeping into the mainstream while advances in machine learning are changing the way we write code and discover ...

Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to their machines. Leslie Lamport may not be a household name, but he’s behind a few of them for ...

It can take years to learn how to write computer code well. SourceAI, a Paris startup, thinks programming shouldn’t be such a big deal. The company is fine-tuning a tool that uses artificial ...

This artificial intelligence bot can answer questions, write essays, summarize documents and write software. But deep down, it doesn't know what's true. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

While GPT-3 can string words together in convincing ways, it has no idea what the words mean. Alas, it is an illusion—a powerful illusion, but still an illusion reminiscent of the Eliza computer ...