In the 1980s, Andrew Barto and Rich Sutton were considered eccentric devotees to an elegant but ultimately doomed idea—having machines learn, as humans and animals do, from experience. Decades on, ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. The Bank of England has revealed the design for the UK’s new £50 note featuring computer ...

The Turing test has long been a benchmark for machine intelligence. But what it really measures is deception. In 1950, the ingenious computer scientist Alan Turing proposed a thought experiment he ...