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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.

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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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Artificial intelligence systems can now convince you they are human. Two large language models have passed the Turing test, which determines if a machine can “show the same intelligence as a human ...