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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Busy Beaver number, or BB(n), represents a mathematical problem that tries to calculate the longest possible run-time of a Turing machine ...

Do you know the incredible story of Alan Turing, also known as the father of modern computing, and his pivotal role in ending World War 2. Find out how Turing's team at Bletchley Park designed a ...

In 1950, Alan Turing proposed his famous test as a measure of intelligence. A human judge would chat through text with both a person and a machine. If the judge couldn’t spot the difference, the ...

Abstract: We propose Vision Token Turing Machines (ViTTM), an efficient, low-latency, memory-augmented Vision Transformer (ViT). Our approach builds on Neural Turing Machines (NTM) and Token Turing ...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4.5 has achieved a milestone once considered decades away: convincing a majority of participants in a Turing Test-style evaluation that it was human. In a recent study by the ...

Zena Assaad does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Quanta Magazine Articles on Turing machinesIn math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how even ...

In the 1980s, Andrew Barto and Rich Sutton were considered eccentric devotees to an elegant but ultimately doomed idea—having machines learn, as humans and animals do, from experience. Decades on, ...

Modern AI systems have fulfilled Alan Turing’s vision by learning from experience and passing the Turing Test. However, a recent paper stresses their divergence from Turing’s ideal of energy-efficient ...

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