In Alan Turing's seminal paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," he posed the now-famous question, “Can machines think?”—an inquiry that laid the groundwork for exploring the cognitive potential ...

Companies of all kinds use machine learning to analyze people’s desires, dislikes, or faces. Some researchers are now asking a different question: How can we make machines forget? A nascent area of ...

Machine consciousness has been debated—and dismissed—since Turing. Yet it still shapes our thinking about AIs like GPT-3. Machines with minds are mainstays of science fiction—the idea of a robot that ...

To build a machine, one must know what its parts are and how they fit together. To understand the machine, one needs to know what each part does and how it contributes to its function. In other words, ...