Since its conception by the British computer scientist Alan Turing, the so-called Turing Test has served as an unofficial benchmark for artificial intelligence. The test is conceptually simple.

"Can machines think?" That's the core question legendary mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing posed in October, 1950. Turing wanted to assess whether machines could imitate or exhibit ...

Mathematician Alan Turing proposed that machines would one day be able to think and behave like humans (see Nature 619, 686–689; 2023). This vision was challenged by neurosurgeon Geoffrey Jefferson, ...

The test of a new paradigm is often the extent to which it can settle old issues that other perspectives have failed to resolve. Where the diametric model of the mind is concerned, I have already ...

Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence that no longer works. The idea was to have people communicate over a terminal, with another real person and with a computer. If the computer is ...

This is epitomized in the Turing Test (named after Alan Turing (1912-54) imaged in slate at Bletchley Park above). According to the diametric model of the mind, if a task could be programmed in such a ...

Alan Turing helped pioneer the idea of programmable computers and built one of the first general purpose computing machines, the Bombe, which decrypted the Nazi's Enigma code and saved thousands of ...