Whether or not you caught wind of the excited announcement that "Eugene Goostman," a computer program ("chatbot") devised by Vladimir Veselov, Eugene Demchenko and Sergey Ulasen, had passed the Turing ...

This year marks 70 years since Alan Turing published his paper introducing the concept of the Turing Test in response to the question, “Can machines think?” The test’s goal was to determine if a ...

As many reported yesterday, a chatbot has passed the Turing Test, though under some very convenient conditions. The announcement has led some to declare that the age of AI is finally here, but that’s ...

The Turing test, the quintessential evaluation designed to determine if something is a computer or a human, may have a fatal flaw, new research suggests. The test currently can't determine if a person ...

Update June 10, 2:44 p.m. ET: As Techdirt points out, this is not the first time an organization has claimed to pass the Turing Test. In addition, the results of a single test are not definitive.

Alan Turings quote of the day highlights how people who are often underestimated or overlooked can go on to achieve ...

We’re entering the age of artificial intelligence. And as AI programs gets better and better at acting like humans, we will increasingly be faced with the question of whether there’s really anything ...

A video game may have laid the groundwork for true artificial intelligence (A.I.). What if “bots” (computer-controlled enemies in first-person shooters) could disguise themselves as human? Would that ...

The Turing Test, which is intended to detect human-like intelligence in a machine, is fundamentally flawed. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be improved or modified. Here are eight proposed alternatives ...