A fresh set of benchmarks could help specialists to better understand artificial intelligence.

As far back as 1980, the American philosopher John Searle distinguished between strong and weak AI. Weak AIs are merely ...

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We’ve trapped AI in a Turing test, measuring it by how well it imitates us instead of how much it reveals beyond us.

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Wanna test your acronym acumen? See if you can work out the words behind seven common acronyms that you, and maybe your kids, are probably using without giving a thought to their backgrounds.

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 ...

In 1994, a strange, pixelated machine came to life on a computer screen. It read a string of instructions, copied them, and built a clone of itself — just as the Hungarian-American Polymath John von ...

Dashun Wang is the Kellogg Chair of Technology and the founding director of the Northwestern Innovation Institute at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. When Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel ...