The British mathematician and pioneer of computing Alan Turing published a paper in 1936 which described a Universal Machine, a theoretical model of a computer processor that would later become known ...

Can a machine genuinely think, understand, or have a mind? Or, in other words, can machines possess intelligence? One may argue that the answer depends on how we define intelligence. Is intelligence ...

When he invented Turing machines in 1936, Alan Turing also invented modern computing. In 1928, the German mathematicians David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann proposed a question called the ...

Long before chatbots came along to compose essays, respond to queries, and converse, there existed in the field of artificial intelligence a dilemma that was foreseen by Alan Turing: How was one to ...

For something that has been around since the 1930s and is so foundational to computer science, you’d think that the Turing machine, an abstraction for mechanical computation, would be easily ...

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.