Have a good mind for computational problem-solving? Fancy netting a cool $1 million for your efforts? Then the University of St. Andrews and the Clay Mathematics Institute sure have the competition ...

An insight into the way machines make meaning. A few years ago I used an algorithm to help me write a science fiction story. Adam Hammond, an English professor, and Julian Brooke, a computer scientist ...

Imagine you are in the 8 th grade, working on an argumentative essay regarding “censorship in the libraries.” After writing a first draft, you receive this marginal comment about one of your sentences ...

Spoiler alert: there's nothing in there. There’s even a technological counterattack, as companies roll out technology designed to detect software-composed writing. But the bottom line is that ChatGPT ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. What if instead of searching through menus within programs like Microsoft Excel, our computers could understand the problem we’re trying ...

But should you really be worried about Google’s core algorithm updates? And is there a way to maintain your rankings, no matter how many updates roll in? In this post, you’ll learn proven, SEO-intent ...

We have horrible news. AI and its job-automating path of destruction just claimed another industry that’s kept many a university student afloat: Writing your idiot roommate’s term paper for cash and ...

Mashable’s series Algorithms explores the mysterious lines of code that increasingly control our lives — and our futures. “The Algorithm” is impenetrable. It’s mysterious, it’s all-knowing, it’s ...

You may have heard that algorithms will take over the world. But how are they operating right now? We take a look in our series on Algorithms at Work. Picture this: you have written an essay. You ...

Cards Against Humanity is back to its usual pranks this Black Friday. The maker of the irreverent card game announced on Friday that it had written (or, as it explained, hired a kid to write) a ...