AI tools promise that anyone can build apps, so I put that claim to the test. After a few minor bumps, I built a custom ...

Have an app you've always wanted to build? A humdrum task to automate? AI tools make it easier than ever, but they can be as ...

When they were freshmen, ChatGPT hadn’t yet been released upon the world. Today, AI can code better than most humans.

Former Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun said current and prospective CS students need to focus on skills "with a long shelf ...

A new AI developed at Duke University can uncover simple, readable rules behind extremely complex systems. It studies how ...

In 1966, computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum built a primitive computer program he named ELIZA. Almost immediately, he regretted his creation. Developed to mimic simple psychotherapy exchanges, ELIZA ...

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 ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

This folder contains the programs found in the March 1975 3rd printing of David Ahl's 101 BASIC Computer Games, published by Digital Equipment Corp. You can download ...

"I had not realized ... that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people." Joseph Weizenbaum, creator of ELIZA My ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...

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 you’re stumped, you’re not alone. These are the first five busy ...