The Turing test used to be the gold standard for proving machine intelligence. This generation of bots is racing past it. Credit...Ricardo Rey Supported by By Cade Metz Franz Broseph seemed like any ...

There was a time in the not too distant past—say, nine months ago—when the Turing test seemed like a pretty stringent detector of machine intelligence. Chances are you’re familiar with how it works: ...

Once upon a time, over 40 years ago, a horde of computer scientists descended on the West German city of Dortmund. They were competing to catch an elusive quarry — only four of its kind had ever been ...