Over 70 years ago, Alan Turing's "imitation game" revolutionized how we assess machine intelligence, shifting focus from ...

Treat an LLM as the step function of a Turing machine. Everything else falls out: state lives on disk, the program is markdown, runs are resumable and observable, and "agents" are just user-authored ...

Abstract: In this paper we present a Universal Turing Machine build in the Cellular Automaton Conway's Game of Life. This is an extension of the Turing Machine built previously by the author [10]. It ...

Will artificial intelligence ever be able to reason, learn, and solve problems at levels comparable to humans? Experts at the University of California San Diego believe the answer is yes—and that such ...

Four cross-disciplinary faculty at UC San Diego believe the answer is yes Does AI already have human-level intelligence? Four UC San Diego faculty suggest the machine intelligence foreshadowed by Alan ...

Acclaimed as a mathematical genius, Ada Lovelace is said to have understood the potential of the first computer blueprints better than their inventor. A serendipitous friendship with the mathematician ...

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The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of ...

Chetan Dube, founder and CEO of Quant, advocates for taxing digital employees to fund universal basic income as humanity approaches what he calls a “digital tsunami” by 2030. Courtesy of Quant That it ...

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 ...

Pick up an August 2025 issue of Vogue and you’ll come across an advertisement for the brand Guess featuring a stunning model. Yet tucked away in small print is a startling admission: She isn’t real.