The Latest Breaking News from Turing

We are constantly fed a version of AI that looks, sounds and acts suspiciously like us. It speaks in polished sentences, mimics emotions, expresses curiosity, claims to feel compassion, even dabbles in what it calls creativity.

Google is driving to make Gemini's memory work better, and that's going to be a major boon in one very important way.

The scrapping of the Erasmus scheme was a mistake. But by working with Brussels, the PM can put it right, says Beth Riding, an A-level student in Cornwall

The Google futurist talks nanobots and avatars, deepfakes and elections – and why he is so optimistic about a future where we merge with computers

Fellow soldiers are responding with a 'please don't do that'

Jeremy Hunt to announce doubling of funding for research at the Alan Turing Institute

Some UK applicants forced to quit Turing scheme when places not confirmed or they failed to receive funds in time

CU Boulder engineers show diffusiophoresis helps create vivid patterns on tropical fish skin, like soap removes dirt from laundry. Modified Turing equations incorporate diffusiophoresis, producing sharp bi-colour hexagonal pattern similar to fish.

Alan Turing might be best known for his work helping to crack Germany’s “Enigma” communications code during the second world war. But he also came up with a theory where patterns can form just through chemical compounds spreading out (diffusing) and reacting with one another. This became known as reaction-diffusion…