I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. Many software projects emerge because—somewhere out there—a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That’s more or ...

ChatGPT was unveiled in public beta form slightly before Christmas. It is a chatbot powered by the GPT-3.5 large language model (LLM) designed to use generative AI and natural language processing (NLP ...

Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...

Linguistics and computer science intertwined in the mid-20th century. Computers help linguists better understand and analyze languages and computer scientists use linguistics to advance programming.

On the 15th, local time, in a Stanford University Department of Computer Science (Computer Science) AI (artificial ...

Today's business users rely on a collection of reports and dashboards to better understand the data underlying their operations. These tools are most often designed by IT organizations, which use ...

Biologists and chemists have a new programming language to uncover previously unknown environmental pollutants at breakneck speed – without requiring them to code. By making it easier to search ...