The essential question, then, is not whether machines can imitate people. Turing asked a brilliant question for the early age ...

A new book claims AI has been built on a flawed assumption dating back to Alan Turing's famous 1950 paper. Peter J. Denning argues that the most important parts of human intelligence, including common ...

The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a ...

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.

Iran's hardline factions accuse officials of staging a soft coup against leadership. President Pezeshkian and Foreign ...

None of this use of AI arrived as science fiction. Adoption was uneven, frequently overpromised, and driven by the belief ...

Modern classics like Interstellar, The Martian, and Arrival are among the best hard sci-fi movies released since the year ...

Uncovering ELIZA’s source code reveals hidden lessons ...

A leading computer scientist says AI may never reach human-level intelligence because it cannot acquire the tacit knowledge that underlies common sense, intuition, and culture. He argues that this ...

Don't underestimate the power of a yes-or-no question. Some of the toughest computing problems boil down to thousands of tiny ...

Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling, its first general-purpose artificial intelligence model, giving developers access ...