The Latest Breaking News from Alan Turing

In November, the UK government held the first AI (artificial intelligence) Safety Summit in the historically resonant setting of Bletchley Park, home to the legendary second world war codebreakers led by the computing genius Alan Turing.

Against the odds, world leaders agreed on a landmark declaration to bring stronger oversight to AI. Plus, Sam Bankman-Fried’s very bad week

Tangible measures may be missing, but at least there's general agreement on AI's promises and risks.

The AI Safety Summit is bringing politicians, computer scientists and tech executives to Bletchley Park in the United Kingdom, a site that's synonymous with codebreaking and the birth of computing during World War II

Chatbots like ChatGPT wowed with their ability to do tasks as good as or better than humans, thanks to cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems

Today’s poem-writing AI has ancestry in punch-card machines, trundling robots and godlike gaming engines

England wing praises ‘scientific, Spock-like approach’ of head coach who he insists can ‘crack the code to rugby’

England went out on their shields in Saturday’s World Cup semi-final defeat by South Africa, losing 16-15 to a late Handre Pollard penalty.

Red Rose wing has compared his 'genius' head coach to Alan Turing as he bids to use semi-final run as a platform for success

No AI has managed to successfully pass the Turing test by fulfilling the specific conditions he outlined

In 1950, British computer scientist Alan Turing proposed an experimental method for answering the question: can machines think? He suggested if a human couldn’t tell whether they were speaking to an artificially intelligent (AI) machine or another human after five minutes of questioning, this would demonstrate AI has human-like intelligence.