If you think computers are quickly approaching true human communication, think again. Computers like Siri often get confused because they judge meaning by looking at a word's statistical regularity.

Theoretical physics isn’t the easiest field in science to translate into laymen’s terms. Until recently it’s solely been the domain of geniuses like the late Stephen Hawking and fictional characters ...

Quantum computers are fragile miracles of physics that are unreliable, cost-prohibitive, and more error-prone than a shortstop with no depth perception. But, if we ever want to get to Star Trek levels ...

It’s shocking to be reminded of how little people understand software. After the Nasdaq stock exchange paused trading for three hours on August 22, an incident now being called the “flash freeze,” ...

A computer that translates “natural language” is the holy grail of artificial intelligence—language being so integral to our intelligence and to our humanness that to crack it would be to achieve ...

I am pressing my fingertips down onto the keys of my laptop, a sequence of movements that is somehow making these words appear on a screen in front of me. At some point, over the next couple of days, ...

First off, I've never met anyone who has mastered C++. I doubt that even Bjarne Stroustrup is a master of C++, and he made it. There are even serious discussions about whether C++ semantics can be ...

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