Sixty years to the day of his death, a computer at the University of Reading passed Alan Turing's test Saturday, successfully convincing judges that they were communicating with a human. UPDATE 6/10: As io9 and others have pointed out, it was not a computer (or a supercomputer) but a chat bot — a program designed to…
It has been a busy week for the Machine-Human Alliance. Sorry! The Human-Machine Alliance. Humans will always take precedence. First there was the deployment of South Korea's autonomous jellyfish-killing aquatic robot swarm. Now, in a completely unrelated development, the engineers at Boston Dynamics—working on behalf…
Computers can't read blogs because they don't understand stories. But those 'scientists' are teaching them, so eventually they can mine for immediate information about every aspect of our lives and see into our very souls. (For advertising purposes.)
Hey, what's this? Our President, Mr. Change, giving a little speech to some guy fucking around on IRC or something? No, look out, it's a Terminator!
