The Latest Breaking News from Alan Turing

For the first time, scientists using chia seed experiments have confirmed that Alan Turing's mathematical model can explain patterns seen in nature.

Letters: Readers express their hopes, and fears, about recent developments in artificial intelligence chatbots

Empowered by artificial intelligence technologies, computers today can engage in convincing conversations with people, compose songs, paint paintings, play chess and go, and diagnose diseases, to name just a few examples of their technological prowess.

The question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) can invent is nearly 200 years old, going back to the very beginning of computing. Victorian mathematician Ada Lovelace wrote what’s generally considered the first computer program. As she did, she wondered about the limits of what computers could do.

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If we want to reach true artificial intelligence, we'll need to combine both modern and traditional methods. And we're currently quite far from that goal.

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Other lives: Mathematician who had teaching and leadership positions at the Open University and several Oxford University colleges