The New Turing Test: Are you human?
In 1950, when Alan Turing conceived "The Imitation Game" as a test of computer behavior, it was unimaginable that humans of the future would spend most…
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The Turing Trust receives first batch of donated Govia Thameslink computers
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has donated the first batch of 70 computers out of a total of 600 that it has set aside for The Turing Trust, the IT…
Meta’s latest VR headset prototypes will help it pass the ‘Visual Turing test’
Meta wants to make it clear it's not giving up on high-end VR experiences yet. So, in a rare move, the company is spilling the beans on several VR headset…
Meta is working on several VR prototypes that aim to pass the Visual Turing test
Meta and its Reality Labs have been busy at work trying to figure out what it takes to build next-generation displays for its virtual/augmented/mixed…
Jack Dongarra, who made supercomputers usable, awarded 2021 ACM Turing prize | ZDNet
"Science is driven by simulation," observed Dongarra. "It's that match…
Turing Award Won by Programmer Who Paved Way for Supercomputers
In the late 1970s, as a young researcher at Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago, Jack Dongarra helped write computer code called Linpack.Linpack…
The Turing Test Is Bad For Business
Fears of Artificial intelligence fill the news: job losses, inequality, discrimination, misinformation, or even a superintelligence dominating the world. The…
Alan Turing – Important LGBTQ+ figures who shaped tech’s history
Probably one of the most famous LGBTQ+ people in tech’s history, Alan Turing was a code breaker during the Second World War.…