The Turing test used to be the gold standard for proving machine intelligence. This generation of bots is racing past it. Credit...Ricardo Rey Supported by By Cade Metz Franz Broseph seemed like any ...

An article in today's Daily Telegraph makes much the same point about computers needing to be able to acquire mentalistic skills—and full speech comprehension in particular—that I made in a recent ...

There was a time in the not too distant past—say, nine months ago—when the Turing test seemed like a pretty stringent detector of machine intelligence. Chances are you’re familiar with how it works: ...

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 ...

When he invented Turing machines in 1936, Alan Turing also invented modern computing. In 1928, the German mathematicians David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann proposed a question called the ...