Technology Computer with human-like learning will program itself. The Neural Turing Machine will combine the best of number-crunching with the human-like adaptability of neural networks – so it ...

Meet Saya — the computer generated schoolgirl created by a tech-savvy ... This Japanese schoolgirl looks so lifelike you won't believe she's not human. ... program, and Maya, a 3D animation ...

This is an Inside Science story. A new computer program taught itself superhuman mastery of three classic games -- chess, go and shogi -- in just a few hours, a new study reports.

There’s no escaping the fact that the Human Brain Project, with its billion-dollar plan to recreate the human mind inside a supercomputer, sounds like a science fiction nightmare.

Judges in England were fooled into thinking the computer program they were conversing with was a human on Saturday — making it the first to pass the 65-year-old Turing Test. "Eugene Goostman" is ...

Jason Les, one of the world’s premier poker players, was representing his species when he faced off in May against a computer program named Pluribus. The game was multiplayer no-limit Texas hold ...

But while Davis believes that teaching a computer to read emotions isn’t inherently dangerous, “there’s also the risk of assuming that all brains work the same, and poorly classifying ...

Emily Howell, a computer program that composes original classical music, has secured a record deal and is due to release her first album of original material next year.

Computer scientist Aniket Bera, an associate professor of computer science in Purdue University’s College of Science, is working to make sure the future is a little more “Big Hero 6” and a little less ...