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Bookmark It's Possible to Run Doom on 16 Billion Crabs
Of the many beloved and influential franchises to come out of the medium of video games, Doom is a name that comes to mind for a lot of players.

November 25 2021, 1:51am | Comments
Bookmark The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans - The Atlantic
It was a tense summer day in 1835 Japan. The country’s reigning Go player, Honinbo Jowa, took his seat across a board from a 25-year-old prodigy by the name of Akaboshi…

October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments
Bookmark Please Prove You’re Not a Robot - The New York Times
When science fiction writers first imagined robot invasions, the idea was that bots would become smart and powerful enough to take over the world by force, whether on their own or…

July 16 2017, 8:15am | Comments
Bookmark Now it’s time to prepare for the Machinocene | Aeon Ideas
Human-level intelligence is familiar in biological hardware – you’re using it now. Science and technology seem to be converging, from several directions, on the possibility of similar intelligence in non-biological systems.

October 27 2016, 12:48pm | Comments
Bookmark Beyond humans, what other kinds of minds might be out there? |…
In 1984, the philosopher Aaron Sloman invited scholars to describe ‘the space of possible minds’. Sloman’s phrase alludes to the fact that human minds, in all their variety, are not the…

October 20 2016, 3:05am | Comments
Bookmark The Quietus | News | Alan Turing's First Computer Music Restored
Researchers based in New Zealand say they have restored the first known recording of computer-generated music which dates back to 1951 and was produced on a contraption made by Alan Turing.

September 28 2016, 1:38am | Comments
Bookmark Turing Test success marks milestone in computing history
An historic milestone in artificial intelligence set by Alan Turing - the father of modern computer science - has been achieved at an event organised by the University of Reading.

April 29 2015, 4:19pm | Comments
Bookmark Outing A.I.: Beyond the Turing Test - NYTimes.com
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is having a moment, albeit one marked by crucial ambiguities. Cognoscenti including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, among others, have recently weighed in on its potential…

February 23 2015, 7:45am | Comments
Bookmark Goodbye, Turing Test; Bring on the Turing Decathlon - Facts So Romantic…
How many researchers does it take to change a test of artificial intelligence? Sixty-five years ago, famed mathematician and WWII code-breaker Alan Turing unveiled the “Imitation Game,” a playful scenario designed to…

February 10 2015, 4:11am | Comments
Bookmark It took 2 years to build this functioning word processor in Minecraft
If it exists in the real world, you can be someone has figured out a way to build it in Minecraft. A Minecraft builder has created a word processor, complete with keyboard and monitor,…

January 9 2015, 2:46am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Turing Machines and (Gothic) Horror I am interested in any writings connecting (Universal) Turing Machines and horror. The idea of computers being able to imitate the behaviour of anything speaks to me of the monsters and doppelgängers from the Gothic tradition onwards. Know any writings on this? Alan…

December 3 2014, 4:44am | Comments
Bookmark A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home - Issue 8: Home -…
The history of Artificial Intelligence,” said my computer science professor on the first day of class, “is a history of failure.” This harsh judgment summed up 50 years of trying to…

January 5 2014, 8:20am | Comments
Bookmark Alan Turing's Body - Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic
There's no command-Z for this great man's suffering. On Christmas Eve, Queen Elizabeth II pardoned the computer scientist Alan Mathison Turing. Nearly all of the modern world is constructed on Turing’s…

December 29 2013, 9:42am | Comments
Bookmark Turing Complete User
Computers are getting invisible. They shrink and hide. They lurk under the skin and dissolve in the cloud. We observe the process like an eclipse of the sun, partly scared, partly…

December 31 2012, 6:46am | Comments
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Meaning as gloss

November 14 2012, 4:39am | Comments
Bookmark Why we want to build Charles Babbage's Victorian computer
To understand why it's worth building an almost 200-year-old mechanical computer, it's necessary to first understand what a computer is. Although Babbage's analytical engine is entirely mechanical, it has the same…

October 24 2012, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark Computer glitch may have led to Deep Blue's historic win over chess…
Earlier this year, IBM celebrated the 15-year anniversary of its supercomputer Deep Blue beating chess champion Garry Kasparov. According to a new book, however, it may have been an accidental glitch…

September 29 2012, 7:09am | Comments
Bookmark Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing's centenary
An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like…

September 29 2012, 4:28am | Comments
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Twitter Bots

September 18 2012, 6:18am | Comments
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The evolution of cheating in chess

September 18 2012, 4:48am | Comments
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Magic: The Gathering is Turing complete

September 16 2012, 4:35am | Comments
Bookmark Pareidolia: A Bizarre Bug of the Human Mind Emerges in Computers
This rocky hill in Ebihens, France, is, well, just that -- a rocky hill in Ebihens, France. But to pretty much any human observer, the assemblage of meaningless angles takes on…

August 8 2012, 2:46am | Comments
Bookmark Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing
For the most part, the biological metaphor has long been just that — a simplifying analogy rather than a blueprint for how to do computing. Engineering, not biology, guided the pursuit…

August 8 2012, 2:44am | Comments
Portfolio Binary Nomination

July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments
Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation
In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments
Bookmark The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence began with an ambitious research agenda: To endow machines with some of the traits we value most highly in ourselves—the faculty of reason, skill in solving problems, creativity, the…

July 10 2012, 2:48am | Comments
Bookmark Why Aren't We Reading Turing?
It's a testament to Turing's fascination with nearly everything that 76 years since his first major paper, there's still so much to write about his work. Expect this week to offer…

June 27 2012, 3:20pm | Comments
Bookmark The Case for Computers at Top Chess Tournaments
Grandmasters of comparable skill now come to championship games with computer-generated analysis of their opponents’ opening lines and likely moves. Home preparation has always been important, but computers have made it…

June 6 2012, 2:53am | Comments
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Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test

April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments
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Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature

March 9 2012, 4:34am | Comments
Bookmark Roar so wildly: Spam, technology and language
This is the raw text output of a chat session with a bot I modified to act as an interlocutor. I use our conversation, which revolves around the history of spam,…

February 16 2012, 5:20am | Comments
Bookmark Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing)
I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as to…

October 31 2011, 6:53am | Comments

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