Turing's imaginary oracle database reveals a hard physical limit on how knowledge can be stored, forcing a deeper question about what intelligence actually is. Any machine that passes the Turing Test ...

It is the height of the Second World War. A group of codebreakers stands in a dimly lit warehouse 50 miles northwest of London, a giant machine composed of spinning drums and wires looms in front of ...

The British mathematician and pioneer of computing Alan Turing published a paper in 1936 which described a Universal Machine, a theoretical model of a computer processor that would later become known ...