Unless you, dear reader, are a web-scraping software bot quietly pulling this text into a data-hungry LLM, you’re probably a human. And though you’ve likely never seen me in person, you have good ...

In our previous deep dive into the groundbreaking world of PLATO, we pointed out the technological advances the system heralded in graphical displays, sound, and user interface; the trailblazing ...

University of Leicester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Just as calculators took over the tedious number-crunching in maths a few decades ago, artificial intelligence (AI) is ...

The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has shifted from late-night dorm debate to a live question in ...

Oh, sure, I can “code.” That is, I can flail my way through a block of (relatively simple) pseudocode and follow the flow. I ...