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AI model trained on almost four million fossils sheds new light on the great mass extinctions
Chinese researchers trained an AI model on almost four million fossils. It maps the history of life in unprecedented detail and suggests that three of the five great mass extinctions happened more gradually than thought. Other palaeontologists are somewhat more cautious.
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'Can machines think?' Alan Turing proposes an imitation game
In the journal Mind, Alan Turing proposes replacing the question of whether machines can think with a test: can an interrogator using a teleprinter tell a machine from a human?
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Chess-playing automaton amazes the court in Vienna
A machine that can play chess has been presented at the court of Empress Maria Theresa. Wolfgang von Kempelen's automaton beats most opponents, but the inventor keeps secret how it works.
