Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

On June 23, we commemorate the birth of Alan Mathison Turing, a visionary whose profound contributions laid the very groundwork for modern computing and artificial intelligence. Often hailed as the ...

A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

Machine learning is the process by which computer programs grow from experience. This isn’t science fiction, where robots advance until they take over the world. When we talk about machine learning, ...

Barto is Professor Emeritus of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Sutton is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Alberta, a Research ...

Machine consciousness has been debated—and dismissed—since Turing. Yet it still shapes our thinking about AIs like GPT-3. Machines with minds are mainstays of science fiction—the idea of a robot that ...

ChatGPT can now easily pass any Turing test, a measure of successful A.I. proposed by a founder of computer science, Alan Turing. But contemporary Turing tests leave out the most interesting part of ...

If you ran into a robot in the street, there are a number of crucial giveaways that would help you pick it out from a human crowd — silicon skin or unblinking eyes, to name a few. Yet, when people ...

Miles O’Brien, the longtime CNN science-technology correspondent and the host of “A.I. Revolution,” calls the public’s response to the precipitous rise of artificial intelligence “equal parts leery ...