Over 70 years ago, Alan Turing's "imitation game" revolutionized how we assess machine intelligence, shifting focus from ...

[Popular Mechanics] has an interesting article about Alan Turing’s nearly-forgotten speech encryption device. Codenamed Delilah, it was in many ways an early form of digital encryption. It was ...

Studying the epic journey of the iconic jumping plumber can lead to new insights in theoretical computer science—and may help ...

Buying a new washing machine isn't a task anyone necessarily loves having on their to-do list. Sure, it can be fun to usher a shiny new appliance through your front door, but the process of actually ...

I picked up a board game purely because of its name: Turing Machine by Scorpion Masqué. Reviews mentioned punch cards as a mechanical coding device, and curiosity pulled me in. After a few plays I ...

Recurrent neural networks were proven to be Turing universal in the 1990s, motivating computational complexity studies of spiking networks, neural Turing machines with differentiable activations, and ...

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Academics Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares argue in their new book that the technology could lead to our extinction. Is there reason to believe them?

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

Home appliances are a necessary part of life. Whether you rent or own your home, you've likely dealt with a defrosting refrigerator, a leaking dishwasher, or a washing machine that's refusing to drain ...

Basically every recent, high-profile accusation of someone passing off AI-generated writing as their own has started in the same way: with a tool called Pangram. In March, when a horror novel from a ...