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The rise of generative artificial intelligence has launched us into a new age. Machines now perform tasks that once belonged only to human minds. Using pretrained models and transformers, they create ...

On the left, Turing’s original test involves a human interrogator (C) trying to identify a machine (A) that imitates a human assistant (B). On the right, the modern Turing-like test replaces the human ...

Mathematician Alan Turing invented an imaginary computer known as the Turing Machine; in an age before computers, he explored the concept of what it meant to be computable, creating the field of ...

Scientific papers by codebreaking war hero Alan Turing which were discovered in a loft are expected to fetch £150,000 at auction – after almost being shredded. The incredible archive was found ...

The archive highlights a lifelong friendship between two renowned mathematicians. However, despite his accolades and singular mind, Turing couldn’t evade society’s bigotry. In 1952, a court in the ...

Family background -- Childhood and early boyhood -- At Sherborne School -- At Cambridge -- At the graduate college, Princeton -- Some characteristics -- War work in the foreign office -- At the ...