Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

Alan Turing’s work laid the foundation for modern artificial intelligence, particularly through his concept of the Turing Test, which evaluates a machine’s ability to exhibit human-like behaviour.

Machine consciousness has been debated—and dismissed—since Turing. Yet it still shapes our thinking about AIs like GPT-3. Machines with minds are mainstays of science fiction—the idea of a robot that ...

Machine learning is the process by which computer programs grow from experience. This isn’t science fiction, where robots advance until they take over the world. When we talk about machine learning, ...

Barto is Professor Emeritus of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Sutton is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Alberta, a Research ...

Your grade school teacher probably didn’t show you how to add 20-digit numbers. But if you know how to add smaller numbers, all you need is paper and pencil and a bit of patience. Start with the ones ...

Miles O’Brien, the longtime CNN science-technology correspondent and the host of “A.I. Revolution,” calls the public’s response to the precipitous rise of artificial intelligence “equal parts leery ...