Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yesterday, at a University of Reading demonstration in London, a computer convinced human judges that it was actually a ...

An important scientific benchmark that has lasted for over seven decades has been broken by artificial intelligence (AI). A ...

The world of high-tech hype was thrown on its ear over the weekend by the news that a computer had passed the “Turing Test” for the first time. The idea was that a machine had finally breached a ...

On Saturday, British mathematician Alan Turing would have turned 100 years old. It is barely fathomable to think that none of the computing power surrounding us today was around when he was born. But ...

We’ve all been awestruck by movies like Her (a comedy about a withdrawn writer played by Joaquin Phoenix, who falls in love with his computer’s highly advanced operating system) or “Jarvis” from Iron ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Computational scientist and mathematician Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton has won the 2023 A.M. Turing Award. The prize, which is given annually by the Association ...