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 ...

“There’s one kind of program that we don’t understand – even in principle – and that’s an AGI. One day we will, but I see no sign of it at the moment and that’s pretty frustrating.” That’s the view of ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In Bill Gates' new autobiography, "Source Code: My Beginnings" (published February 4 by Knopf), the computer pioneer and ...

Women have been instrumental in shaping the tech industry, from Ada Lovelace’s pioneering work on the first computer program in the 1800s to Grace Hopper’s development of COBOL, and the coining of the ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.