IN THE end, the robots won. On December 3rd, Google announced that it was radically changing its ReCAPTCHA system, the sort of prove-you’re-a-human-and-not-automated-software test that... Read more
Researcher develops test to assess a computer’s capacity for human-level intelligence through its ability to create rather than to converse or deceive A Georgia Tech professor recently offer... Read more
An historic milestone in artificial intelligence set by Alan Turing – the father of modern computer science – has been achieved at an event organised by the University of Reading... Read more
New brain-mimicking artificial intelligence software can read security images called CAPTCHAS as well as people do, its developer says–but scientists are skeptical Luis von Ahn has hea... Read more
“With so much at stake, we need to do a better job of understanding the risks of potentially catastrophic technologies.” A philosopher, a scientist and a software engineer have c... Read more
BotPrize winners score as more human than half their human competitors An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won t... Read more
Instead of looking for a helping hand, how about a helping robot? MIT Professor Julie Shah claims the factory floor of the future may be full of robots and humans working side by side, each... Read more
The Super Turing model yields an exponentially greater repertoire of behaviors than the classical computer As computer scientists this year celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of th... Read more
The Loebner prize rewards the machine that best imitates a human – it provides a great sanity check for wilder AI claims When you chat to your mates online, are you sure they are not machine... Read more
IT WAS not quite a foregone conclusion, but all the smart money was on the machine. Since the first rehearsal over a year ago, it had become apparent that Watson—a supercomputer built by IBM... Read more