Last week, an artificial intelligence computer named Cleverbot stunned the world with a stellar performance on the Turing Test — an IQ test of sorts for "chatbots," or conversational robots. Cleverbot ...

Judging by the comments section of this blog, some of you readers are actually robots. Well, today's your day because we're going to be talking all about you. Chatterbots are computer programs ...

Given that, in countless science fiction films, the moment when the computers start thinking for themselves tends to coincide with the end of the world as we know it, it is perhaps a little unsettling ...

With artificial intelligence and robots taking over jobs from bank teller to carpet cleaner, I decided to see whether something called the Cleverbot could take over mine. The Cleverbot is a kind of ...

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WHEN Alan Turing, a brilliant mathematician whose code-breaking helped end the second world war, devised a test to establish whether machines could think, he simply called it the “Imitation Game”.

I don’t have many fond memories from middle school. The few bright spots that do exist in my memory, though, revolve around the three essential pillars: television, books, and AOL Instant Messenger.

Last week, an artificial intelligence computer named Cleverbot stunned the world with a stellar performance on the Turing Test — an IQ test of sorts for "chatbots," or conversational robots. Cleverbot ...