John Kaag is a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the author of the forthcoming book ...

Even in 1950, at the dawn of the computing age, famous British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing knew that machines would one day rival the conversational abilities of humans. To ...

When Alan Turing first proposed an approach to distinguish the “minds” of machines from those of human beings in 1950, the idea that a machine could ever achieve human-level intelligence was almost ...

Do computers think? Some experts say yes, some say no. —Time magazine, Jan. 23, 1950 How do we tell whether a machine thinks? Much of today’s discussion of the matter starts with British computer ...

In 1950, the mathematician Alan Turing wrote a paper entitled "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." The paper began with the simple and now legendary phrase, "I propose to consider the question, ...

In 1950, the mathematician Alan Turing published a paper about whether computers could think. He proposed a thought experiment, a version of a parlor game in which notes are passed back and forth ...