For decades, this remained a theoretical benchmark. But with the recent explosion of powerful chatbots, the original Turing ...

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Futurist Ray Kurzweil foresees human immortality. He predicts artificial intelligence will match human intelligence by 2029.

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On Wednesday, researchers from the University of Zurich, University of Amsterdam, Duke University, and NYU released a study ...

For decades, the Turing test was AI researchers’ North Star. Today, it’s been quietly surpassed. With reasoning models and agentic capabilities emerging, and with the pace ...

While puzzling captchas—from dogs in hats to sliding jockstraps—still exist, most bot-deterring challenges have vanished into ...