The British mathematician and pioneer of computing Alan Turing published a paper in 1936 which described a Universal Machine, a theoretical model of a computer processor that would later become known ...

Two people can watch the exact same machine respond to a question and reach completely different conclusions about what just happened. One assumes anything convincing enough must be simulating a mind ...

This month is the 75 th anniversary of the Turing Test, which Alan Turing introduced to the world in his paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, published in the October 1950 issue of the ...

Quanta Magazine Articles on Turing machines In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how even ...

Author's rendition of a basic Turing test set-up. Sitting in between two agents (one human and one machine), a person needs to interact with both agents and determine (correctly) which is a machine.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. We research and write about business and management. Professor Richard Allmendinger, Professor of Applied Artificial Intelligence ...

Once upon a time, over 40 years ago, a horde of computer scientists descended on the West German city of Dortmund. They were competing to catch an elusive quarry — only four of its kind had ever been ...

In 1950, British computer scientist Alan Turing proposed an experimental method for answering the question: can machines think? He suggested if a human couldn’t tell whether they were speaking to an ...