This year marks 70 years since Alan Turing published his paper introducing the concept of the Turing Test in response to the question, “Can machines think?” The test’s goal was to determine if a ...

Supercomputer poses as 13-year-old boy, becomes first ever to pass Turing Test. June 9, 2014— -- Like many 13-year-old boys, Eugene Goostman claims to be a know-it-all. The one thing that ...

Germany's top-secret World War II code was called "Enigma." The Englishman who played a key role in breaking that code was very much an enigma himself. Anthony Mason this morning helps decode the ...

A file of 148 documents belonging to Alan Turing including correspondence, official letters, and a handwritten draft of a BBC radio program on artificial intelligence has been discovered in a filing ...

Isaac Huerta and William Clayton in 'Formulae & Fairy Tales' If you own a laptop or smartphone, you’re indebted to the genius of British mathematician Alan Turing, the World War II codebreaker and ...

The machine referred to in The Imitation Game as “the crooked hand of death itself,” and simply as “beautiful” by Benedict Cumberbatch’s Alan Turing, still exists—but you’ll have to fight the ...

Alan Turing, a pivotal World War II codebreaker, developed the theoretical basis for modern computing and artificial intelligence. Despite his immense contributions, he was prosecuted for his ...

Will artificial intelligence ever be able to reason, learn, and solve problems at levels comparable to humans? Experts at the University of California San Diego believe the answer is yes—and that such ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. To clarify, there are lots of claims these days about ...