When Alan Turing first proposed an approach to distinguish the “minds” of machines from those of human beings in 1950, the idea that a machine could ever achieve human-level intelligence was almost ...
Alan Turing was many things: a wartime hero, a computer scientist who pre-dated computers, the father of artificial intelligence and a persecuted gay man. Now, 70 years after his death, he will also ...
On the left, Turing’s original test involves a human interrogator (C) trying to identify a machine (A) that imitates a human assistant (B). On the right, the modern Turing-like test replaces the human ...