The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so large they’re impossible to write out using standard mathematical notation.

Artificial intelligence has taken many forms over the years and is still evolving. Will machines soon surpass human knowledge and understanding?

In this Q&A, Quant CEO Chetan Dube reflects on the seismic shifts A.I. is bringing to work, society and the global economy. He discusses agentic A.I.’s rise could reshape how we define ...

A 22nd century scholar attempts to find a missing poem from 2014, but his digital sleuthing doesn’t capture the truth in Ian McEwan’s ‘What We Can Know.’ ...

75 years after the publication of Alan Turing's seminal paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, The University of Manchester now sits at the centre of a 1,600-strong community of researchers who ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been making great strides in generating and translating human language. Large language models (LLMs) have quickly moved beyond simply dealing with human speech to ...

Seeing as the CAPTCHA tests aim to tell computers apart from humans, the name basically means “automatic bot detector”. That makes sense for the image and distorted text tests most of us associate ...

Over the last few weeks, several major US tech firms announced plans to invest billions into British data centres and AI infrastructure. For the UK government, these investments were hailed as a sign ...

Although AI gained popularity in the year 2018 when OpenAI came into existence, its origins date back to the 1920s. From the foundation laid in 1920 to the emergence of AI in 1956, which laid the ...

‘Godfather of AI’ warns again that it could lead to the end of humanity: ‘A lot of people inside those companies are worried’ For years, one of the so-called “godfathers of AI” has been urging ...