In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

Studying the epic journey of the iconic jumping plumber can lead to new insights in theoretical computer science—and may help researchers understand the tractability of problems in other areas.

Uncovering ELIZA’s source code reveals hidden lessons ...

Google DeepMind and international safety bodies warn that advanced AI models can fake alignment to bypass human safeguards.

Ascribing human traits to chatbots empowers techlords. ‘Our slavery will be one we have consented to, enthusiastically.’ ...

A new book claims AI has been built on a flawed assumption dating back to Alan Turing's famous 1950 paper. Peter J. Denning argues that the most important parts of human intelligence, including common ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Bletchley Park, the center of espionage for Britain during the Second World War, was a house of secrets as the Nazi scourge made it way across Europe.

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A viral report claims that chatbot lying and scheming has increased exponentially; the problem is that the report’s language is doing the heavy lifting instead of its data, opines Satyen K. Bordoloi ...

Protein structures that are elucidated in days instead of years. Medical scans that allow earlier disease detection. Meetings that are automatically transcribed and summarised. From the lab to the ...

Researchers have a responsibility to search for consensus on this crucial issue, both for future generations and the future of our planet.

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