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 ...

Romera-Paredes and colleagues’ work is the latest step in a long line of research that attempts to create programs automatically by taking inspiration from biological evolution, a field called genetic ...

A few weeks ago brought an announcement from Google that over 25% of all new code created within the company is generated by AI. This is a notable statement from a company that creates some of the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

I have always taken it for granted that, just as my parents made sure that I could read and write, I would make sure that my kids could program computers. It is among the newer arts but also among the ...