A kid-focused coding academy is in the works at the Lee Harrison Shopping Center, and it's already enrolling families. Code Ninjas, a programming "dojo" teaching skills like building video games and ...

ServiceNow Inc., Hugging Face Inc. and Nvidia Corp. today released StarCoder2, the latest version of the trio’s StarCoder family of open-source large language models for code generation. The companies ...

Minecraft creator Markus Persson has just issued a warning: That AI is “being forced down our throats” and that leaders behind the push are “evil.” ...

As large language models (LLMs) continue to improve at coding, the benchmarks used to evaluate their performance are steadily becoming less useful. That's because though many LLMs have similar high ...

At its re:Mars conference, Amazon today announced the launch of CodeWhisperer, an AI pair programming tool similar to GitHub’s Copilot that can autocomplete entire functions based on only a comment or ...

“Learn to code.” That three-word pejorative is perpetually on the lips and at the fingertips of internet trolls and tech bros whenever media layoffs are announced. A useless sentiment in its own right ...

Microsoft unveiled a new open source programming language for its low-code development push centered around the Power Platform and its Power Apps component. At this week's big Ignite show focusing on ...

A little over a year ago, as the Covid-19 lockdowns were beginning to fan out across the globe, most folks grasped for toilet paper and canned food. The thing I reached for: a search function. The ...

From IDE plugins to external chatbots and running LLMs locally, these new and emerging tools are bringing the generative AI revolution to R. My previous article focused on some of the best tools for ...

The generative AI technology powering ChatGPT—OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 LLMs—is available to R users, with a growing collection of packages and apps to choose from. ChatGPT can answer questions about ...

This year is not like last year. Yes, I know. Anyone who follows the news or buys eggs knows that this year is different. But I'm not talking globally. Instead, I'm talking about Google and its Gemini ...