A leading computer scientist says AI may never reach human-level intelligence because it cannot acquire the tacit knowledge that underlies common sense, intuition, and culture. He argues that this ...

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A security researcher demonstrated that they could poison an open weight AI model into executing malicious code in under an ...

One surefire way to annoy an AI researcher is to imply that AI started in 2022 with the arrival of ChatGPT. Generative AI, ...

A team of U of T Engineering undergraduate students has created an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that makes official ...

In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

Alan Turing, the father of theoretical computer science, made a proposal that has put AI development on a flawed path for ...

A new book claims AI has been built on a flawed assumption dating back to Alan Turing's famous 1950 paper. Peter J. Denning argues that the most important parts of human intelligence, including common ...

In 1862, Mary Todd Lincoln, grieving the loss of her son, organized séances in the White House, hoping to communicate with ...

Explore the potential of quantum computing and the challenges ahead as researchers strive to overcome noise and errors.

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Valve opened Steam Machine pre-orders on the back of its price and release date announcements for the PC-console hybrid. The situation is much like it was for the Steam Deck, with limited availability ...