Do computers think? Some experts say yes, some say no. —Time magazine, Jan. 23, 1950 How do we tell whether a machine thinks? Much of today’s discussion of the matter starts with British computer ...

Mathematician Alan Turing proposed that machines would one day be able to think and behave like humans (see Nature 619, 686–689; 2023). This vision was challenged by neurosurgeon Geoffrey Jefferson, ...

At a major artificial intelligence competition, machines have come close to imitating human communication. At a major artificial intelligence competition at the University of Reading on 12 October, ...

Pairs were set up and judges were tasked with identifying whether who they were talking to was human or a computer. Can machines be successful in 'being human' in real conversations? Alan Turing led a ...

Such is Turing's legacy: that of a nested chain of pretenses, each pointing not to reality, but to the caricature of another idea, device, individual, or concept. It's hard to overestimate Alan Turing ...