Modern-day LLMs are "fiction machines," designed not to be truthful but to make sense. What can we expect from these machines, and what are their limitations?

In 1951, a BBC outside broadcast unit brought a portable acetate disc cutter to the Manchester Computing Machine Laboratory and recorded three melodies played by Alan Turing's Mark II computer. The ...

Charles H Bennett and Gilles Brassard were recognised for introducing quantum mechanics to process and transmit information ...

Charles H. Bennett helped pioneer the foundations of quantum information science alongside co-laureate Gilles Brassard of ...

The computing factory that defeated the cipherIn Alan Turing's world, at Bletchley Park, there wasn't time to crack a PIN with brute force, as ciphers changed too often and lives were at risk. By Dr ...

“It seems that I’ll have to revise my opinions about ‘generative AI’ one of these days,” said Donald Knuth, widely regarded as the father of algorithm analysis. Donald Knuth praises Claude Opus 4.6 ...

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Abstract: This paper presents a novel implementation of the popular 2048 game using a Turing Machine-inspired state management model. The game's grid is represented as a linear tape, allowing for ...

According to Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) on Twitter, Yann LeCun is conflating general intelligence with universal intelligence, emphasizing that both human brains and AI foundation models function ...

Edward Khomotso Nkadimeng receives funding from the National Research Foundation. In most industries, maintenance is a waiting game. Things are fixed when they break. But in the 21st century, an age ...

The biggest issue SteamOS devices face is a lack of anti-cheat support in many of the most popular titles, but is there any hope it'll get better? When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...