This week, researchers published LIGO findings that hint at the existence of second-generation black holes. Astronomers captured a spectacular new image of the Milky Way across a wide range of radio ...

President Donald Trump reiterated Friday that he wants testing of US nuclear weapons, but again failed to clarify whether he meant live explosions in an order that has provoked global tension and ...

Debates about AI consciousness question whether intelligent machines can truly understand or experience thought, citing the ...

Abstract: Diffusion-driven instabilities with pattern formation may occur in a network of identical, regularly-spaced, and resistively-coupled cells if and only if the uncoupled cell is poised on a ...

A fresh set of benchmarks could help specialists to better understand artificial intelligence.

Abstract: For decades, a range of disciplines (from engineering and computer science to philosophy, law, and history) have seen debates over the nature of computer programs. Various scholars—including ...

By this metric, many chatbots are already "intelligent." You can test this yourself at Turing Test Live. Recent studies from ...

We’ve trapped AI in a Turing test, measuring it by how well it imitates us instead of how much it reveals beyond us.

As far back as 1980, the American philosopher John Searle distinguished between strong and weak AI. Weak AIs are merely ...

Large language models have become enormously powerful tools for summarizing existing knowledge and generating text, figures, and references for scientific publications. This power can be abused to ...

Perhaps the most exceptional mind to think about thinking machines before 1956 was the British mathematician Alan Turing.