For over seven decades, the Turing test was considered the gold standard for artificial intelligence: can a machine convince a human that it is actually human? It turns out it can.

AI can pass the Turing Test in live chats, and the latest result lands with a chill. In a UC San Diego study, GPT-4.5 outperformed real participants at convincing judges there was a person on the ...

Moltbook’s sudden breakout felt like a small sci‑fi event. Overnight, a Reddit‑like forum appeared where the posters weren’t humans, but AI agents. The feed quickly filled with the kinds of things ...

Four cross-disciplinary faculty at UC San Diego believe the answer is yes Does AI already have human-level intelligence? Four UC San Diego faculty suggest the machine intelligence foreshadowed by Alan ...

Taking effect on Jan. 1, 2026, SB 243 is directed at regulating AI-powered companion chatbots (with limited exceptions) that engage users across multiple interactions, with a multi-pronged approach.

The Turing Test remains a central benchmark for artificial intelligence, measuring whether machines can mimic human thought. US military gives update after American attacks in Ecuador The final voyage ...

What happens when machines sound more human than we do? In a newly published study, researchers from UC San Diego conducted a large-scale, randomized, and pre-registered evaluation of four AI systems ...

This month is the 75 th anniversary of the Turing Test, which Alan Turing introduced to the world in his paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, published in the October 1950 issue of the ...

For decades, fashion images have been retouched. But this isn’t airbrushing a real person; it’s a “person” created from scratch, a digital composite of data points, engineered to appear as a beautiful ...