Wordpress is still commonly used for e-commerce. You’re probably visiting more PHP sites than you realize.

There might be “better” languages, but PHP is still used by ~70% of the web.

AI is about making machines that mimic human level intelligence. Whether they possess actual intelligence doesn’t matter. They just need to act intelligently.

You can disagree with the terminology, but it has been an active field of study since the 1950s.

The whole point of C++ is to graft Object Oriented Programming into C like some Frankenstein’s monster because OOP was the big hype.

C++ being performant is mostly a side effect of it being based on a language created when programs were still punched into paper cards.