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 ...

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Google Bard can provide some decent answers to certain types of questions, but these computers are ironically pretty bad at computing stuff. Google has a ...

Look out, educators. You’re about to confront a pernicious new challenge that is spreading, kudzu-like, into your student writing assignments: papers augmented with artificial intelligence. Using an A ...

OpenAI’s new chatbot is raising fears of cheating on homework, but its potential as an educational tool outweighs its risks. By Kevin Roose Recently, I gave a talk to a group of K-12 teachers and ...