Earlier this week, Elbot made a fairly impressive showing (comparatively speaking, at least) when fooling three judges into thinking it was human; had it fooled one more on the dozen deep panel, it ...

Interactive, conscious artificial intelligence machines have always been a staple of science fiction. From Rosie the Robot to HAL to Data in “Star Trek”: TNG, the concept of a thinking machine is ...

Computers argued, cracked jokes and parried trick questions today, all part of an annual test of artificial intelligence carried out at the University of Reading. Typing away at split-screen terminals ...

Elbot is a droid with a sarcastic edge — it points out that it’s a machine even as it tries to convince you it’s human. And yesterday it proved somewhat successful, fooling three out of 12 judges ...

Every year the Loebner Prize for artificial intelligence is awarded to the chatbot software able to converse most like a human. It is a version of the Turing test, proposed in 1950 by Alan Turing. A ...