Cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter has argued that we redraw the borders of “real intelligence” whenever machines reach ...

Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine have signed their signature pipes over to A.I. amid Hollywood’s concerns about the tech dismantling the industry.

The Alan Turing Institute (ATI) has begun a significant organisational transformation, which will see it pivot towards major challenges in defence and national security. In July, Peter Kyle, during ...

A mixture of two types of pigment-producing cells undergoes diffusiophoretic transport to self-assemble into a hexagonal pattern. Credit: Siamak Mirfendereski and Ankur Gupta/CU Boulder A zebra’s ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

"A kid born today will never be smarter than AI – ever," Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, claims in the Huge Conversations podcast with Cleo Abram. Meanwhile, billions of children worldwide are heading back ...

Staff at the UK’s national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) have warned the charity is at risk of collapse, after Technology Secretary Peter Kyle threatened to withdraw its funding. Workers ...

Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician and codebreaker who helped crack the German Enigma cipher in World War II, played a pivotal role in shortening the war and saving countless lives. Despite his ...

Malcolm Holmes will make his Off-Broadway debut in the title role of Professor Alan Turing. Soprano Sara Lucille Law will star as Mrs. Morcom, the Queen of the Night. Billed as a queer fantasy, ALAN ...

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