In 1950, Alan Turing introduced a test that still influences how people judge chatbots today

Over 70 years ago, Alan Turing's "imitation game" revolutionized how we assess machine intelligence, shifting focus from ...
MIT Technology Review

Super Mario is mathier than you think

Studying the epic journey of the iconic jumping plumber can lead to new insights in theoretical computer science—and may help ...
The Hindu

How Babbage automated calculations with simple machines

Modern computing is often effortless. You pick up a calculator or open the calculator app on your phone, and you’re on your way in seconds. But getting here took humans several centuries from when ...
THE WEEK

AI has passed the Turing test

Artificial intelligence systems can now convince you they are human. Two large language models have passed the Turing test, which determines if a machine can “show the same intelligence as a human ...
as.com

Alan Turing, mathematician: “At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control”

Computing power has come a long way since mathematician Alan Turing broke the Nazi’s Enigma machine code. Even so, the Father of AI saw what the possibilities were way back in 1951 when he gave a ...
Psychology Today

AI Officially Passes the Turing Test, Landmark Study Shows

An important scientific benchmark that has lasted for over seven decades has been broken by artificial intelligence (AI). A new breakthrough study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...
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Thinking machines, how Turing reduced all computation to read, move, and print

Alan Turing's radical insight was that any mechanical thought process could be stripped down to a few symbolic operations on a strip of tape. This video unpacks how that elegant simplification became ...
katu

"A Simple Machine": Meet the Filmmaker and Lead Actor

A Portland man has been arrested on attempted murder and multiple assault charges in connection with a June 17 shooting that critically injured one man and seriously injured another, police said.
Prevention

5 Best Sound Machines to Help You Fall Asleep and Stay Asleep, According to Editor Testing

Getting a good night’s sleep is something that I’ve struggled with my entire life, and so if there's anything I can do to help me when I wake up in the middle of the night, I’m willing to try it. I ...
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Award-winning PNW-filmed movie to debut at Panorama Film Festival

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Filmmaker Mark Alan Hoffman is making his rounds across the Pacific Northwest with his award-winning debut feature film “A Simple Machine.” The movie will make its Oregon ...
The New York Times

Turing Award Goes to Inventors of Quantum Cryptography

In the 1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard created a new kind of encryption that would be impregnable. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the ...