"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 ...

Turing is best known for his development of the Bombe, a machine that successfully deciphered coded Nazi messages during World War II. The Germans encoded their messages using Enigma machines, which ...

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

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

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

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 ...

(CNN) — An AI robot’s painting of British computer scientist and codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for $1.08 million, becoming the most valuable artwork by a humanoid robot ever to change hands at ...