An insight into the way machines make meaning. A few years ago I used an algorithm to help me write a science fiction story. Adam Hammond, an English professor, and Julian Brooke, a computer scientist ...

On a rainy afternoon earlier this year, I logged into my OpenAI account and typed a simple instruction for the research company's artificial-intelligence algorithm, GPT-3: Write an academic thesis in ...

Interactive Python modes are an easy way to learn new libraries. Scripting languages are easy to learn on their own because ...

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” —John F. Kennedy, 1961 When it comes to political speeches, great ones are few and far between. But ordinary political ...

Peter Shor, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explains why he devised an algorithm for a quantum computer that could unravel our online data encryption. Celeste Biever ...

"There are always going to be the questions of bias, hallucinations and fabricated results — and even manipulation," said Sam Adebayo ...

Some web-based companies are trying to use academic studies of humor to write an algorithm for what is funny, and use it to sell an app. Humor, however, is notoriously tough to study. Along with ...

The number of nonbank lenders has tripled since 2015. That boom is largely thanks to market pressure as capital providers rushed to provide liquidity for those borrowers or transactions that are now ...

Amy Webb says the best way to find success in online dating is by writing our own algorithms for love—not using the ones presented to you. In the video above, Amy tells us how she hacked online dating ...