In August of 2010, I was one of the first employees at a small startup called GroupMe. The story seems familiar—a duo of young entrepreneurs started the company and modeled it on a problem they had.

“When you are telling computers what to do, it’s not so different from how you might go about explaining to another person how to carry out a particular task.” Michael Littman is a university ...

Dear Decoder, Your desire to speak the “language” of machines reminds me of Ted Chiang's short story “The Evolution of Human Science.” The story imagines a future in which nearly all academic ...

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