A new technology called Codex generates programs in 12 coding languages and even translates between them. But it is not a threat to professional programmers. Tom Smith, a veteran programmer, shows how ...

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 ...

This piece was originally published on David Crawshaw's blog and is reproduced here with permission. This article is a summary of my personal experiences with using generative models while programming ...

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 ...

With the current mania for generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is much anguish about AI replacing jobs. Many university lecturers despair that the pinnacle of education, the ability of a ...

Hi, everyone. Hope you had a great infrastructure week! Maybe by the time we get those new train routes—in 2035—it’ll be safe to ride them again. The Plain View A few weeks ago, I went to an office in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Romera-Paredes and colleagues’ work is the latest step in a long line of research that attempts to create programs automatically by taking inspiration from biological evolution, a field called genetic ...