For several years, [Jim] has wanted to construct a fully-mechanical universal Turing machine. Without the help of any electronic circuits or electrical input, his goal was to build the machine ...

This collegial dynamic is very much on display with TMD-2, [Michael Gardi]’s latest iteration of his Turing machine demonstrator. We covered the original TMD-1 back in late summer, the idea of ...

Alan Turing and his assistant Donald Bayley celebrated victory in their quiet English way, by taking a long walk together. They had been working side by side for more than a year in a secret ...

A mathematical model of computation. Named after English scientist Alan Turing, a Turing machine is a finite state machine that reads a tape divided into cells. The Turing machine examines the ...

Turing's 1950 paper didn't just pose the profound question, "Can machines think?". It ignited a quest to build AI technology ...

This capacity to pass the Turing test—deceiving an average person into thinking a machine is human—marks a significant milestone in technological history. In 1950, Alan Turing redefined the ...

In December 2024, Geoff Hinton, who is often called the “godfather of AI” and who had just won the Nobel Prize in Physics, ...

Like Turing’s proposed model, early AI systems were based on symbolic AI, comprised of explicitly encoded knowledge within software. The difference today is that we have machine learning and ...

AI-assisted mental health care is evolving, with ChatGPT-4 outperforming therapists in empathy and cultural competence, ...

Avoiding the thorny issue of defining “thinking,” Turing replaced the question "Can machines think?" with the question "Can machines do what we (as thinking entities) can do?" Turing’s imita ...

Peter Westcombe, founder of the Bletchley Park Trust, explains in detail how the Enigma machine works and how its codes were broken by the code-breakers at Bletchley Park. play How Alan Turing ...