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This month is the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test, which Alan Turing introduced to the world in his paper, “Computing ...

It took an emotionally complex man to first imagine a world in which machines could ‘think’, writes Satyen K. I don’t recall ...

Perhaps the most exceptional mind to think about thinking machines before 1956 was the British mathematician Alan Turing.

For decades, fashion images have been retouched. But this isn’t airbrushing a real person; it’s a “person” created from scratch, a digital composite of data points, engineered to appear as a beautiful ...

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In 1950, the mathematician Alan Turing wrote a paper entitled "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." The paper began with the simple and now legendary phrase, "I propose to consider the question, ...

Now, though, “chatfishing,” a new wave of online deception, is taking over dating apps. Instead of “catfishing”—using an ...

“We call for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence,” the nonprofit Future of Life Institute (FLI) said in a ...

It may not have a soul, but AI has learned the mathematical recipe for the sights and sounds that most people find moving. Jacob Wackerhausen/iStock via Getty Images Plus Pick up an August 2025 issue ...

Pick up an August 2025 issue of Vogue and you’ll come across an advertisement for the brand Guess featuring a stunning model. Yet tucked away in small print is a startling admission: She isn’t real.