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 ...

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

Historically low water levels are plaguing Lake Mead, affecting millions in various states and Mexico. To combat this, ...

How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

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.

The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a ...

It’s become a trope in Silicon Valley to liken the rise of AI to t. Hardcore AI true-believers often say that the rise of ...

Uncovering ELIZA’s source code reveals hidden lessons ...

The US AI research company Anthropic has become known for building powerful AI models while simultaneously warning about ...

To coincide with this year's Reith Lectures, entitled the Triumph of Technology, You and Yours asked what has been the most significant technological innovation since 1800. From the hundreds of ...

An unstable labor market is pushing skilled workers into new kinds of online work. The jobs may offer short-term income, but ...