English computer scientist Alan Turing is most known for a thought experiment first devised in 1950 —- can a computer pass as a human?

In a recent preprint study, researchers put GPT-4.5 to the test—not to solve complex problems or write code, but to do something far more human: hold a conversation. The results were impressive. When ...

Opinion Remember ELIZA? The 1966 chatbot from MIT's AI Lab convinced countless people it was intelligent using nothing but simple pattern matching and canned responses. Nearly 60 years later, ChatGPT ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Tamilla Triantoro, Quinnipiac University (THE CONVERSATION) Pick up an August 2025 ...

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.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) For decades, fashion images have been retouched. But this isn’t airbrushing a real ...