The question I always ask when considering a new language is what it actually offers me beyond some syntax variation. What kinds of things don't you do in the languages you already know, or what do ...

Twenty years ago, when I was at Princeton, I and all of my fellow graduate students in physics were required to pass two foreign-language achievement tests in order to get our degrees. Since then, ...

To me, AI’s scariest aspect is the so-called singularity—the threat of a runaway intelligence explosion leaving humanity in the dust. But today’s state of the art in artificial intelligence is already ...

Rumours of the death of homework may have been exaggerated. Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT are disrupting some of the ways in which educators assess the progress of pupils and students, ...