Quote of the day by Alan Turing: "If a machine can think, it might think more intelligently than we do, and then where should we be?"

In the early 1950s, most people had never seen a computer. Those who had were unlikely to describe it as anything more than a ...
Psychology Today

AI Officially Passes the Turing Test, Landmark Study Shows

An important scientific benchmark that has lasted for over seven decades has been broken by artificial intelligence (AI). A new breakthrough study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...
Neuroscience News

Advanced AI Passes the Turing Test for the First Time

Summary: A milestone cognitive science study unveiled the first definitive empirical evidence that modern artificial intelligence can pass the iconic Turing test. The randomized, controlled study ...
today.ucsd

AI Can Seem More Human Than Real Humans in a Classic Turing Test, Study Finds

New UC San Diego research suggests the line between human and machine is increasingly drawn around social behavior as much as knowledge UC San Diego researchers ran a rigorous three-party Turing test ...
Today

105 Easy Trivia Questions to Test Your General Knowledge

Put your thinking cap on, because it's time to find out how much you know about history, geography, math, science, food, animals, entertainment and pop culture with this roundup of easy trivia ...
The Next Web

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with benchmark-leading coding and agentic performance

In short: Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable generally available model, with benchmark-leading scores on SWE-bench Pro (64.3% vs GPT-5.4’s 57.7%), multi-agent coordination for ...
Wired

A Quantum Leap for the Turing Award

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science. Those water-logged scientists, Charles Bennett and Gilles ...
The New York Times

Turing Award Goes to Inventors of Quantum Cryptography

In the 1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard created a new kind of encryption that would be impregnable. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the ...
Nature

Major Turing computing award goes to quantum science for first time

Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett have been awarded the A. M. Turing Award “for their essential role in establishing the foundations of quantum information science and transforming secure ...
CNN

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist devised a way to keep secrets safe from hackers

Years before emails, internet banking, cloud servers and cryptocurrency wallets, two scientists devised a way to keep secrets perfectly safe and indecipherable to eavesdropping outsiders. Their 1984 ...
Quanta Magazine

Quantum Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award

One afternoon in October 1979, Gilles Brassard was swimming outside a beachfront hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, when a stranger swam up to him and changed the course of his career. Without so much as ...