It’s a popular concern these days to worry that when machines pass the Turing test, we’ll be replaced by robots. Well, it’s time to be incredibly worried, because we already have. The Turing test, if ...

Whether or not you caught wind of the excited announcement that "Eugene Goostman," a computer program ("chatbot") devised by Vladimir Veselov, Eugene Demchenko and Sergey Ulasen, had passed the Turing ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Chillin' with my children in London recently, ...

Many are familiar with the Turing Test, named for computing pioneer Alan Turing, in which a machine attempts to pass as human in a written chat with a person. Despite a few high-profile claims of ...

While the invention of calculus by Newton and Leibniz in the 17th century set the stage for the so-called industrial revolution and unleashed unparalleled analytical power to fast-track human ...

Long ReadThe British mathematician, whose fate was both exceptional and tragic, is considered a founding figure for the idea of artificial intelligence. His story, long overlooked, continues to be ...