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8 Sep 2014:
The Alan Turing biopic has all the elements of drama going for it, but somehow the script fails to catch fire
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17 Aug 2014:
Statues of the great and good across the capital and Manchester will be able to chat to passers-by thanks to smartphone technology, writes Kit Buchan
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24 Jul 2014:
A Prom dedicated to a 'man from the future' was crying out for more input from Chris Lowe, writes Kitty Empire
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21 Jul 2014: Prestigious red-carpet slot in London's West End goes to life story of renowned codebreaker, starring Benedict Cumberbatch
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20 Jul 2014:
At this week's Proms, the pop trailblazers will celebrate Alan Turing, the computer pioneer and Enigma codebreaker persecuted for his homosexuality. They tell Jude Rogers about the project's genesis, and of their admiration for him
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13 Jun 2014:
Giles Fraser: Loose Canon: In essence, being human is fundamentally a moral category not a biometric one – it is unlikely that artificial intelligence will ever surpass us on this score
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11 Jun 2014: Letters: Since most computer scientists are male, I worry that the test is likely to favour an idea of conversation as being an information-focused activity rather than an interactive process which builds relationships between people
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9 Jun 2014:
The program fooled 10 out of 30 judges at the Royal Society in London that it was human, but not all are convinced
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9 Jun 2014:
Robert Llewellyn: Four times I was fairly confident I had spotted the machine answering and I was wrong every time
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9 Jun 2014: A computer program has managed to fool people that it is a living, breathing, thinking Ukrainian teenager. Well 33% of people anyway
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9 Jun 2014:
'Eugene Goostman' fools 33% of interrogators into thinking it is human, in what is seen as a milestone in artificial intelligence
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9 Jun 2014:
The Turing test has been passed by a robot named Eugene. So, asks Alex Hern, is it time to pledge fealty to the machines?
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9 Jun 2014:
Algorithm pretending to be 13-year-old boy passes Turing test among third of judges – read some past conversations
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9 May 2014:
The private lives of the great inventors, discoverers and academics were often extraordinary. So it's not surprising that film-makers have been drawn to celebrate them and that actors have produced some terrific performances. Kit Buchan chooses the pick of the bunch over the years including Russell Crowe as John Nash and Walter Matthau as Einstein
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31 Mar 2014:
Top codebreaker at Bletchley Park who helped to decipher Hitler's messages
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