Questions and answers on AI and verification: follow-up to my May ACM Tech Talk
Questions and answers on AI and verification: a follow-up to my May ACM Tech Talk 21 July 2026 by Bertrand Meyer On May 7, I gave a well-attended ACM Tech talk on “Software Verification in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”. There were more questions at the end than I had the time to answer, but I promised the participants that I would answer everything. In the meantime I had to finish my book AI for Smarties: Understanding Artificial Intelligence, but now that it is out I am coming back to this discussion.
- ▪Questions and answers on AI and verification: a follow-up to my May ACM Tech Talk 21 July 2026 by Bertrand Meyer On May 7, I gave a well-attended ACM Tech talk on “Software Verification in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”.
- ▪There were more questions at the end than I had the time to answer, but I promised the participants that I would answer everything.
- ▪In the meantime I had to finish my book AI for Smarties: Understanding Artificial Intelligence, but now that it is out I am coming back to this discussion.
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| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:09:26 +0000 |
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Questions and answers on AI and verification: a follow-up to my May ACM Tech Talk 21 July 2026 by Bertrand Meyer On May 7, I gave a well-attended ACM Tech talk on “Software Verification in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”. There were more questions at the end than I had the time to answer, but I promised the participants that I would answer everything. In the meantime I had to finish my book AI for Smarties: Understanding Artificial Intelligence, but now that it is out I am coming back to this discussion. Thanks for all the great questions! Yan Timanovsky, the organizer, provided me with the list of questions that had been written on the meeting chat and left unanswered. They are reproduced below.
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