Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as part of his attempt to solve a fiendish puzzle known as the ...

Do computers think? Some experts say yes, some say no. —Time magazine, Jan. 23, 1950 How do we tell whether a machine thinks? Much of today’s discussion of the matter starts with British computer ...

A "super computer" has duped humans into thinking it was a 13-year-old boy to become the first machine to pass the "iconic" Turing Test, experts have said. Five machines were tested at the Royal ...

While the fundamental premise remains unchanged, the dramatic advancement of large language models has renewed scientific ...

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 ...

The Turing test, proposed by computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950, is a measure of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

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