For decades, this remained a theoretical benchmark. But with the recent explosion of powerful chatbots, the original Turing ...

For decades, fashion images have been retouched. But this isn’t airbrushing a real person; it’s a “person” created from scratch, a digital composite of data points, engineered to appear as a beautiful ...

Pick up an August 2025 issue of Vogue and you’ll come across an advertisement for the brand Guess featuring a stunning model. Yet tucked away in small print is a startling admission: She isn’t real.

It's just good at mass-production copy and paste Opinion Remember ELIZA? The 1966 chatbot from MIT's AI Lab convinced countless people it was intelligent using nothing but simple pattern matching and ...

Do computers think? Some experts say yes, some say no. —Time magazine, Jan. 23, 1950 How do we tell whether a machine thinks? Much of today’s discussion of the matter starts with British computer ...

Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence that no longer works. The idea was to have people communicate over a terminal, with another real person and with a computer. If the computer is ...

Plus: a look back at the people at the heart of some major biotech breakthroughs This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the ...

A new study suggests artificial intelligence has officially passed the meme Turing Test, with large language models now generating memes rated funnier than those created by the average human. What ...

Named after computer scientist Alan Turing, the Turing test tries to determine if a machine can act like a human being well enough to fool the person taking the test. An online game called Human or ...

Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann says true "transformative AI" will arrive only after systems ace what he calls the "economic Turing test." What Happened: Mann, in a recent appearance on the ‘No Priors’ ...