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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

Apple Inc. plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company’s first artificial ...