"Can machines think?" That's the core question legendary mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing posed in October, 1950. Turing wanted to assess whether machines could imitate or exhibit ...

It took an emotionally complex man to first imagine a world in which machines could ‘think’, writes Satyen K. I don’t recall ...

Some of today’s most capable AI systems are refined versions of large language models (LLMs) that predict text on the basis ...

ChatGPT can now easily pass any Turing test, a measure of successful A.I. proposed by a founder of computer science, Alan Turing. But contemporary Turing tests leave out the most interesting part of ...

Perhaps the most exceptional mind to think about thinking machines before 1956 was the British mathematician Alan Turing.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Busy Beaver number, or BB(n), represents a mathematical problem that tries to calculate the longest possible run-time of a Turing machine ...

A new "blueprint" for building AI that highlights how the technology can learn from different kinds of data—beyond vision and ...