In 1950, Alan Turing had an answer to that question—a computer was capable of “thought” if its output was so convincing that a person interacting with it couldn ’ t distinguish its answers from those ...

The £50 note itself features a table and mathematical formula from Turing's 1936 paper, which introduced the concept of a Turing machine. Another picture on the bill shows the Automatic Computing ...

The UK has finally unveiled its Alan Turing bank note, and it's a fitting tribute to the pioneering computer scientist in both what it represents and the technology behind it. To start, the durable ...

Proposal for development in the Mathematics Division of an automatic computing engine (ACE) / A.M. Turing -- Lecture to the London Mathematical Society on 20 February 1947 / A.M. Turing -- The history ...

On June 23, we commemorate the birth of Alan Mathison Turing, a visionary whose profound contributions laid the very groundwork for modern computing and artificial intelligence. Often hailed as the ...

The game involves a human guessing if a player is a computer or another human. The Turing Test is arguably one of the most well-known methods of evaluating how well artificial intelligence (AI) can ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Several Alan Turing papers, including "On Computable Numbers," are going to auction in June. | ...