WHEN Alan Turing, a brilliant mathematician whose code-breaking helped end the second world war, devised a test to establish whether machines could think, he simply called it the “Imitation Game”.

The artificial intelligence world was largely abuzz this week upon the news that a computer program designed to simulate a text-based conversation with a 13-year-old Ukrainian child had passed the ...

Last week, an artificial intelligence computer named Cleverbot stunned the world with a stellar performance on the Turing Test — an IQ test of sorts for "chatbots," or conversational robots. Cleverbot ...

Judging by the comments section of this blog, some of you readers are actually robots. Well, today's your day because we're going to be talking all about you. Chatterbots are computer programs ...

When I posted the video of two chatbots arguing and declaring their status as a unicorn, I thought we were still a long way off from a chatbot which could trick a large number of people into thinking ...

How would you feel if you found out that the nice young man or woman you’d been messaging on your online dating site of choice was actually a robot? Would you feel upset? Used? Would you find it ...

With artificial intelligence and robots taking over jobs from bank teller to carpet cleaner, I decided to see whether something called the Cleverbot could take over mine. The Cleverbot is a kind of ...

I was stumped. How could I prove that I was human and that too to a computer? This is part of a conversation I was having with CleverBot. You could try it too. Just go to www.cleverbot.com. CleverBot ...