You may have heard the famous answer to the question, “Why climb a mountain?” (“Because it is there.”) The same could be said about our desire to create programs that can communicate with us in a ...

What are chatbots? What can they do for programmers? Why they need to be used with care. Generative artificial-intelligence (AI) tools like chatbots are typically trained using massive amounts of data ...

It is a universal tendency to assign or impute human emotional, cognitive, and behavioral qualities to nonhuman creatures and things. Owls are “wise.” Swollen rivers are “raging” and “angry.” ...