Back in 1950, Alan Turing proposed an elegantly simple yet profoundly challenging way to determine whether machines could be said to "think." Known as the Turing Test, this measure of machine ...

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It is even at a grand sounding location—“c /o Alan Turing Institute, The British Library”. And everything on its website emphasises its important mission: “ARIA funds breakthrough R&D in underexplored ...

The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better?

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Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley star in the gripping, tragic biopic of mathematician Alan Turing's cracking of the enigma code ... It was inspired by a viral 2015 New York magazine article ...

On at least two different occasions, the rumour was rife on social media that he was dead. To be falsely deceased, I teased, ...