We’ve trapped AI in a Turing test, measuring it by how well it imitates us instead of how much it reveals beyond us.

By this metric, many chatbots are already "intelligent." You can test this yourself at Turing Test Live. Recent studies from ...

Some of the world’s most interesting thinkers about thinking think they might’ve cracked machine sentience. And I think they ...

A new ‘blueprint’ for building AI that highlights how the technology can learn from different kinds of data to make it more ...

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

As far back as 1980, the American philosopher John Searle distinguished between strong and weak AI. Weak AIs are merely ...

Large language models have become enormously powerful tools for summarizing existing knowledge and generating text, figures, and references for scientific publications. This power can be abused to ...

Now, though, “chatfishing,” a new wave of online deception, is taking over dating apps. Instead of “catfishing”—using an ...

Last week, several Nobel laureates and high-profile celebrities cautioned that the threat of artificial intelligence is real, ...

The dream of domestic robots, of intelligent machines seamlessly integrating into our daily lives, is a pervasive one, ...

Back in 2016, we took you to a collection of slightly dilapidated prefabricated huts in the English Home Counties, and showed ...