In 1950, a man named Alan Turing wrote a paper suggesting how to test a “thinking” machine. He believed if a machine could carry on a conversation by way of a teleprinter, imitating a human with no noticeable differences, the machine could be described as thinking. His paper was followed in 1952 by the Hodgkin-Huxley […]
Apple’s Siri Play in the Artificial Intelligence Battles
by Angela Guess Tom Simonite reports in the MIT Technology Review, “On Monday Apple showed off a string of new iPhone features powered by recent advances in artificial intelligence—many of them aping ones already launched by rival Google. But Apple’s announcements of features like facial recognition or software that knows what’s in your photos, made […]