In the United States in 1951, people were humming the tune of a brand new Christmas hit, “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.” Across the pond, however, listeners were treated to something ...

Two people can watch the exact same machine respond to a question and reach completely different conclusions about what just ...

An historic milestone in artificial intelligence set by Alan Turing -- the father of modern computer science -- has been achieved. The 65 year-old iconic Turing Test was passed for the very first time ...

We’ve all been awestruck by movies like Her (a comedy about a withdrawn writer played by Joaquin Phoenix, who falls in love with his computer’s highly advanced operating system) or “Jarvis” from Iron ...

On Saturday, British mathematician Alan Turing would have turned 100 years old. It is barely fathomable to think that none of the computing power surrounding us today was around when he was born. But ...

A computer program named "Eugene Goostman" has convinced a third of human judges into thinking it is a 13-year-old boy, becoming the first machine to pass the Turing test, Hannah Furness of The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yesterday, at a University of Reading demonstration in London, a computer convinced human judges that it was actually a ...

The Bank of England has announced that legendary British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing will appear on the new £50 note in the UK. Turing was chosen from thousands of names that were ...

A computer program has officially passed the historic Turing Test, a 65 year old experiment that seeks to find the point at which a computer can pass as a human being in text-based conversation. The ...