"Can machines think?" That's the core question legendary mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing posed in October, 1950. Turing wanted to assess whether machines could imitate or exhibit ...

It seems that every day brings a new headline about the burgeoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT ...

In late 1950, noted mathematician, code-breaker, and computer scientist Alan Turing proposed a test for answering the question, "Can machines think?" Consider the following scenario: Author's ...

Jeroen van den Bos and Davy Landman honor the computer scientist Alan Turing by recreating his calculating machine with LEGOs. Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg is the former executive producer and ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Busy Beaver number, or BB(n), represents a mathematical problem that tries to calculate the longest possible run-time of a Turing machine ...

The questions of what subjective experience is, who has it and how it relates to the physical world around us have preoccupied philosophers for most of recorded history. Yet the emergence of ...

On September 11, 2023, Richard Sutton, the 2024 Turing Award winner and Canadian computer scientist, stated at the 2025 Bund Conference that the primary aim of most machine learning is to transfer ...

Ambuj Tewari receives funding from NSF and NIH. Understanding intelligence and creating intelligent machines are grand scientific challenges of our times. The ability to learn from experience is a ...