[Popular Mechanics] has an interesting article about Alan Turing’s nearly-forgotten speech encryption device. Codenamed Delilah, it was in many ways an early form of digital encryption. It was ...

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I picked up a board game purely because of its name: Turing Machine by Scorpion Masqué. Reviews mentioned punch cards as a mechanical coding device, and curiosity pulled me in. After a few plays I ...

Recurrent neural networks were proven to be Turing universal in the 1990s, motivating computational complexity studies of spiking networks, neural Turing machines with differentiable activations, and ...

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Academics Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares argue in their new book that the technology could lead to our extinction. Is there reason to believe them?

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