A shrunk version of hemoglobin, left, compared to the reference hemoglobin. Credit: Rohit Singh A new AI-based program, dubbed Raygun, can suggest strategic cuts to a protein’s amino acid sequence to ...

Lilian Weng, who built OpenAI's safety team, is rejoining the lab to lead recursive self-improvement research — the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the field of designing computer systems that perform tasks such as perception, language processing, prediction, planning, content generation and decision support. Some ...

In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

Used during WWII to encrypt messages, the Enigma Machine played a significant role in wartime communications. This video explores how the Enigma Machine works within its historical context, including ...

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Modern algorithms would overpower World War II codes easily. In London’s Imperial War Museum, a team staged a curious experiment: they fed a modern AI the problem that haunted Alan Turing during the ...

Crowning achievement of Alan Turing’s codebreakers is now ‘straightforward’, according to computer scientists The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a ...

Artificial intelligence has become increasingly influential, but its conceptual foundations were established decades before the digital age. To create a machine that works and thinks just like humans ...

On Thursday, Google and the Computer History Museum (CHM) jointly released the source code for AlexNet, the convolutional neural network (CNN) that many credit with transforming the AI field in 2012 ...

Using a bunch of carrots to train a pony and rider. (Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are the recipients of the Turing Award for ...