Since its conception by the British computer scientist Alan Turing, the so-called Turing Test has served as an unofficial benchmark for artificial intelligence. The test is conceptually simple.

Author's rendition of a basic Turing test set-up. Sitting in between two agents (one human and one machine), a person needs to interact with both agents and determine (correctly) which is a machine.

Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence that no longer works. The idea was to have people communicate over a terminal, with another real person and with a computer. If the computer is ...

We’re entering the age of artificial intelligence. And as AI programs gets better and better at acting like humans, we will increasingly be faced with the question of whether there’s really anything ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study by researchers at the University of California San Diego concluded that GPT‑4.5, OpenAI’s latest large language model, ...

ENGLAND - 1958: English Electric developed several notable pioneering computers during the 1950s. The DEUCE: Digital Electronic Universal Computing Engine, was the first commercially produced digital ...