Category: Science
The Turing Test Is Dead. Long Live the Lovelace Test.
Recently, a computer program pretending to be a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy named Eugene Goostman was hailed as the first to pass the Turing test.
If Nature’s Designs Weren’t So Good, Engineers Wouldn’t Be Rushing to Imitate Them
From cells to seeds to humans, there’s no organism that is escaping the envy of bioengineers.
Flannery Goes to Edinburgh
Our friend and colleague Professor Michael Flannery is in Scotland, doing some research on Alfred Russel Wallace at the University of Edinburgh.
On Human Origins, a Cautionary Tale with "Surprising" Biological Results
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, DNA sequencing was sweeping the scientific scene with its power to answer a number of unsolved problems.
Conversations with Stephen Meyer: Surprised by Praise
It’s not only the response of the critics that proves there’s a legitimate scientific controversy here.