Turing machines are widely believed to be universal, in the sense that any computation done by any system can also be done by a Turing machine. In a new article, researchers present their work ...

When he invented Turing machines in 1936, Alan Turing also invented modern computing. In 1928, the German mathematicians David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann proposed a question called the ...

Alan Turing: still casting a long shadow over mathematics One hundred and fifty years of mathematics will be proved wrong if a new computer program stops running. Thankfully, it’s unlikely to ...

How Alan Turing found machine thinking in the human mind Turing's youthful bid for fame proved a great mathematician wrong – and accidentally created the modern computer By Jonathon Keats 29 ...

Alan Turing first imagined this possibility back in 1950. His idea, known as the "imitation game," asked whether a machine could fool an ordinary person into thinking it was human. The concept ...

A professor of computer science explains why the original limitations of Turing Machines still govern the age of advanced AI like ChatGPT.

There was a time in the not too distant past—say, nine months ago—when the Turing test seemed like a pretty stringent detector of machine intelligence. Chances are you’re familiar with how ...

Benedict Cumberbatch may be the star of The Imitation Game, but the film's truly central figure is the code-breaking computer Christopher.