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

"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 ...

This month is the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test, which Alan Turing introduced to the world in his paper, “Computing ...

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

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

Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence that no longer works. The idea was to have people communicate over a terminal, with another real person and with a computer. If the computer is ...

Miles O’Brien, the longtime CNN science-technology correspondent and the host of “A.I. Revolution,” calls the public’s response to the precipitous rise of artificial intelligence “equal parts leery ...

The French scholar Pierre-Simon Laplace crisply articulated his expectation that the universe was fully knowable in 1814, asserting that a sufficiently clever “demon” could predict the entire future ...