While the fundamental premise remains unchanged, the dramatic advancement of large language models has renewed scientific ...

Artificial intelligence is the transformative, strategic technology of the early 21st century. It is significantly reshaping ...

AI anthropomorphism is a documented crisis in LLM science: a new Microsoft paper found more than half of 300 studies assumed ...

When people debate highly contentious issues, they often misrepresent the other side’s arguments. A recent study tested ...

Newly revealed documents show that, while breaking Nazi codes, Turing was also building a device that almost changed military ...

Artificial intelligence systems can now convince you they are human. Two large language models have passed the Turing test, which determines if a machine can “show the same intelligence as a human ...

Everyone knows the CAPCHA tests on websites where you either have to click on numerous pictures of cars, traffic lights, or bicycles, enter confusing combinations of numbers and letters or simply ...

There has been much talk about the cognitive abilities of Trump as he has struggled recently to speak clearly at press conferences and has spent many hours posting on social media late at night. The ...

For over seven decades, the Turing test was considered the gold standard for artificial intelligence: can a machine convince ...

Stephen Ladyman suggests a question to ask artificial intelligence systems, while John van Someren is suspicious of advice he got from the AI assistant Claude There is a test that Prof Richard Dawkins ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

AI can pass the Turing Test in live chats, and the latest result lands with a chill. In a UC San Diego study, GPT-4.5 outperformed real participants at convincing judges there was a person on the ...