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.” ...

A 14-year-old tells a chatbot about a fight with her best friend. The bot responds with patience, asks follow-up questions, ...

While many educators spent the past two years fretting that artificial intelligence is killing student writing, upending person-to-person tutoring and generally wreaking havoc on scholastic inquiry, ...