The first time Short Wave co-host Emily Kwong ever "spoke" to a computer was at a children's museum. On display was a computer equipped with ELIZA, one of the very first programs for natural language ...

Can AI think? The short answer is no, at least not in the way humans think. AI does not have incentives, opinions, or empathy. Even 2-year-olds possess something that our artificial systems lack—the ...

The advent of LLMs has reopened a debate about the limits of machine intelligence — and requires new benchmarks of what reasoning consists of. Since their public release less than two years ago, large ...