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ChatGPT passed the Turing Test. Now what?

It seems that every day brings a new headline about the burgeoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT ...
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What is the Turing test? How the rise of generative AI may have broken the famous imitation game.

"Can machines think?" That's the core question legendary mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing posed in October, 1950. Turing wanted to assess whether machines could imitate or exhibit ...
Popular Mechanics

Mathematicians Say There’s a Number So Big, It’s Literally the Edge of Human Knowledge

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Busy Beaver number, or BB(n), represents a mathematical problem that tries to calculate the longest possible run-time of a Turing machine ...

2024 Turing Award Winner Richard Sutton: Current Machine Learning Cannot Generate New Knowledge, Anticipating the Emergence of Superintelligent Agents

On September 11, 2023, Richard Sutton, the 2024 Turing Award winner and Canadian computer scientist, stated at the 2025 Bund Conference that the primary purpose of most machine learning is to transfer ...
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What Does It ‘Feel’ Like to Be a Chatbot?

The questions of what subjective experience is, who has it and how it relates to the physical world around us have preoccupied philosophers for most of recorded history. Yet the emergence of ...
Wired

Scientists Are Mapping the Boundaries of What Is Knowable and Unknowable

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