Turing

UK to invest $273 million in Turing AI supercomputer

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Bletchley Park was a codebreaking facility during World War II. Getty The U.K. government said Wednesday that it will invest £225 million ($273 million) into an artificial intelligence supercomputer, highlighting the country’s ambition to lead in the technology as it races to catch up to the U.S. and China. The University of Bristol will build … Read more

Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking

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Turing’s diagonalization proof is a version of this game where the questions run through the infinite list of possible algorithms, repeatedly asking, “Can this algorithm solve the problem we’d like to prove uncomputable?” “It’s sort of ‘infinity questions,’” Williams said. To win the game, Turing needed to craft a problem where the answer is no … Read more