Like more than a few faculty colleagues before her, computer scientist Amber Wagner, Ph.D., started out by creating an AI assignment that was designed to flop. Teaching a course on the C++ programming ...

An interactive explanation of how language models learn to mimic language, from Shakespeare to Star Trek.

They have gone from punch cards and assembly code to programming languages like Python that are relatively easy to read and write.

“ [W]e give others more algorithm and less of ourselves. … [A]utomation … can stop us thinking.” In literate societies, writing has long been recognized as a way to help people think.