In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

Alan Turing, the father of theoretical computer science, made a proposal that has put AI development on a flawed path for ...

A new book claims AI has been built on a flawed assumption dating back to Alan Turing's famous 1950 paper. Peter J. Denning argues that the most important parts of human intelligence, including common ...

How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

Explore the potential of quantum computing and the challenges ahead as researchers strive to overcome noise and errors.

The Tuesday letters page discusses the possibility of GTA 6 being cheaper than average, as a reader is very surprised to learn that God Of War Laufey was planned in 2018. Games Inbox is a collection ...

The review embargo for Valve’s Steam Machine is finally up, and after reading through impressions from major publications, one thing becomes immediately clear: the reviews aren’t nearly as mixed as ...

On June 1, Jensen Huang took to the stage for GTC Taipei, and during his keynote, he introduced the six-foot Isaac GROOT humanoid robot. Nvidia calls it a reference design, which is industry shorthand ...

Buying a new washing machine isn't a task anyone necessarily loves having on their to-do list. Sure, it can be fun to usher a shiny new appliance through your front door, but the process of actually ...

But new research highlights how these notions can actually counteract each other. Long-serving CEOs may even quash a firm’s appetite for innovation, without strong external advice. The paper from a ...