Usually, I write drafts on a computer because I type faster than I write, and because I can name the document, file it on my computer, and find it afterward. But in class, when I give a freewrite ...

Singer and Ivory mis-spoke in their Nov. 4 article in the New York Times (front page, above the fold): "... there is little rigorous evidence so far to indicate that using computers in class improves ...

At the event, panelists discussed “Output: a Celebration of Computer-Generated Text,” a collection of AI-generated works from ...

We fed ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new natural language tool, college essay questions for the 2022-2023 academic year. Here’s what it wrote. The new technology could pose a challenge for college admissions ...

For the first time ever a team of researchers says it has deployed a brain-computer interface (or BCI) to decode the neural signals that represent the writing of letters and turn them into text. A ...

None of this turned out how it was supposed to. Here I am, a human, writing a story that was assigned to a machine. If I’d published what the computer came up with, you’d be reading something like: ...

Researchers have demonstrated that, for a few specific tasks, it's possible to write computer programs using ordinary language rather than special-purpose programming languages. The work may be of ...

With a single tweet, Andy Herd raised a question about the job security of every TV writer: “i fed a recurrent neural network with the scripts for every episode of friends and it learned to generate ...

There are two places where punctuation can be earth-shattering: in poetry and in code. When I mention that I majored in English and minored in Computer Science, people are either surprised or relieved ...

Herd insisted that this new material is better than the show's original writing, and even some of the sitcoms currently clogging the airwaves. He told the Washington Post, "I have received a lot of ...