If this kind of writing can be done by a machine that doesn’t have a single thought in its head, what does that tell us about what we’ve been asking of students.

IBM developed an algorithm that can predict who might develop Alzheimer's disease by spotting changes in their writing style.

The code-writing algorithm doesn’t work simply, but here’s how to think of it in simple terms. A math problem has inputs and outputs—or the numbers you have and the number you need to calculate.

A few years ago I used an algorithm to help me write a science fiction story. Adam Hammond, an English professor, and Julian Brooke, a computer scientist, had created a program called SciFiQ, and ...