In a study conducted over the weekend, a computer program was able to fool more than a third of human interviewers into believing it was "Eugene Goostman," a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy for whom English ...

You may have heard that a computer passed the Turing Test over the weekend. There’s been all sorts of media freakouts over this, including the statement that this is the first time a computer has ...

The test of a new paradigm is often the extent to which it can settle old issues that other perspectives have failed to resolve. Where the diametric model of the mind is concerned, I have already ...

Can machines think? The originator of modern, electronic computing asked this question in terms of the now famous Turing test. Turing proposed it as a variant of an “imitation game” in which, using ...

IBM has come up with an automatic debating system called Project Debater that researches a topic, presents an argument, listens to a human rebuttal and formulates its own rebuttal. But does it pass ...

For more than 70 years, the Turing Test has been a popular benchmark for analyzing the intelligence of computers. For nearly a decade, programmers have created AI reportedly beating the Turing Test ...

BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.