Over 70 years ago, Alan Turing's "imitation game" revolutionized how we assess machine intelligence, shifting focus from ...

Moltbook’s sudden breakout felt like a small sci‑fi event. Overnight, a Reddit‑like forum appeared where the posters weren’t humans, but AI agents. The feed quickly filled with the kinds of things ...

The systems can imitate humans ...

One of the inevitable side effects of the current AI boom has been a certain level of mistrust when it comes to communicating with machine intelligences. It's certainly not unfounded paranoia, either; ...

An important scientific benchmark that has lasted for over seven decades has been broken by artificial intelligence (AI). A new breakthrough study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

AI can pass the Turing Test in live chats, and the latest result lands with a chill. In a UC San Diego study, GPT-4.5 outperformed real participants at convincing judges there was a person on the ...

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Pick up an August 2025 issue of Vogue and you’ll come across an advertisement for the brand Guess featuring a stunning model. Yet tucked away in small print is a startling admission: She isn’t real.

For decades, fashion images have been retouched. But this isn’t airbrushing a real person; it’s a “person” created from scratch, a digital composite of data points, engineered to appear as a beautiful ...

Taking effect on Jan. 1, 2026, SB 243 is directed at regulating AI-powered companion chatbots (with limited exceptions) that engage users across multiple interactions, with a multi-pronged approach.