Computers don’t simply "understand" code in the way humans do. They rely on a highly sophisticated series of steps to ...

Arguing about which programming language is the best one is a favorite pastime among software developers. The tricky part, of course, is defining a set of criteria for "best." With software ...

AI- and machine learning-powered programming tools have the potential to reshape industries. But they have a ways to go.

In software engineering, code transforms from human-readable high-level languages like Python or Java into machine-readable binary (machine code). An intermediate step, bytecode, bridges ...

Python, meanwhile, is an interpreted language, which means that its human code is converted into machine code line-by-line as the program executes, enabling it to run without first being compiled.

Intel unveils ControlFlag, a machine programming research system that can autonomously detect errors in software code.

Microsoft's separate Jupyter notebooks extension aims to improve support for Python's programming language rivals.

Intel unveils a new machine programming system, in conjunction with MIT and Georgia Tech: machine inferred code similarity.

AI Could Soon Write Code Based on Ordinary Language Microsoft reveals plans to bring GPT-3, best known for generating text, to programming. “The code writes itself,” CEO Satya Nadella says.

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AI research firm OpenAI has announced a new version of its Codex software, which uses machine learning to translate natural English language into code.