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Alan Turing

November 2024

  • Ai-Da Robot, first humanoid robot artist to have artwork auctioned<br>epa11695924 An undated handout photo made available by Sotheby's on 01 November 2024 shows the Ai-Da Robot in front of their AI created 'A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing' artwork, at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Ai-Da Robot is the first humanoid robot artist to have an artwork auctioned by a major auction house, participating in Sotheby's Digital Art Sale from 31 October to 07 November. EPA/SOTHEBY'S HANDOUT MANDATORY CREDITHANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

    First artwork painted by humanoid robot to sell at auction fetches $1m

    Portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing was created by Ai-Da, one of the most advanced robots in the world

October 2024

  • The Alan Turing Institute focuses on AI and data science.

    UK’s Alan Turing Institute launches redundancy consultation process

    Institute for AI and data science sends memo saying it will concentrate on fewer projects

September 2024

  • Composite: Getty Images/Guardian design

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    No god in the machine: the pitfalls of AI worship – podcast

    The rise of artificial intelligence has sparked a panic about computers gaining power over humankind. But the real threat comes from falling for the hype. By Navneet Alang

August 2024

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    The long read
    No god in the machine: the pitfalls of AI worship

    The long read: The rise of artificial intelligence has sparked a panic about computers gaining power over humankind. But the real threat comes from falling for the hype

March 2024

  • View across the British Library to the St Pancras hotel and railway station, London, England. The Alan Turing Institute is located on the first floor of the British Library, 96 Euston Road, London

    Staff at Alan Turing Institute speak out after four men given top roles

    Employees say there is a trend of limited diversity among the senior scientific leadership at the London centre for AI

February 2024

  • Matt Cain

    If you’re raging that ‘Netflix made Alexander the Great gay’, it’s time to learn some LGBTQ+ history

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    For centuries, LGBTQ+ lives have been wiped from the record – February represents a chance to celebrate our contribution, says novelist Matt Cain

January 2024

  • Emotionless … Joe Bishop stars in Alan Turing: A Musical Biography Riverside Studios, London.

    Alan Turing: A Musical Biography review – ode to the codebreaker is bafflingly dull

    The compelling life of the world-changing mathematician and logician is somehow rendered unremarkable in a drab musical

October 2023

  • A brain transforming into pixelated data flying across a network

    Race to AI: the origins of artificial intelligence, from Turing to ChatGPT

    Today’s poem-writing AI has ancestry in punch-card machines, trundling robots and godlike gaming engines

July 2023

  • Alan Turing

    LGBTQ+ military charity backs proposal for Alan Turing statue on fourth plinth

    Trafalgar Square monument would stand in ‘stark contrast’ to treatment codebreaker received in his lifetime

April 2023

  • A printed circuit in the shape of a human brain

    The danger of blindly embracing the rise of AI

    Letters: Readers express their hopes, and fears, about recent developments in artificial intelligence chatbots

December 2022

  • Code-breaking at Bletchley Park, 1943.<br>UNITED KINGDOM - OCTOBER 23: This shows the machine room in hut 6 of Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, the British forces' intelligence centre during WWII. The cryptographers at Bletchley Park deciphered top-secret communiques between Hitler and his armed forces. These communiques were encrypted in the 'enigma' code which the Germans considered unbreakable, but the codebreakers at Bletchley cracked the code with the help of 'Bombe' machines. Colossus, the world's first electronic programmable computer, decoded the even more sophisticated Lorenz code, and so aided the Allies� victory. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

    Due recognition for Poland’s codebreaking pioneers

    Letter: A memorial at Bletchley Park honours their contribution to winning the war, says Michael Saunders

August 2022

  • The life and career of Alan Turing is the subject of a new musical at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

    New musical tells the story of wartime hero Alan Turing

    Edinburgh Fringe show sets out to tell the tale of the code-breaker whose crucial work on German cyphers helped win the second world war

April 2022

  • One of the machine room huts at Bletchley Park

    Intelligence Factory exhibition sheds light on secret Bletchley Park operation

    Top secret second world war code-breaking centre in Buckinghamshire was the forerunner of GCHQ

January 2022

  • The statue of mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing in Sackville Gardens in Manchester

    Past convictions for homosexual activity to be wiped from records, Patel to announce

    UK’s disregards and pardons scheme set to be expanded to ‘right wrongs of the past’

July 2021

  • Einstein Writing Equation on Blackboard<br>Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein writes a complicated equation on a blackboard. He is at the California Institute of Technology for a lecture being given by Swedish astronomer Dr. Gustave Stromberg.

    Pure folly: Turing family join fight to save ‘blue-skies maths’ from neglect

    As hard-pressed universities axe abstract study, the codebreaker’s great niece and top mathematicians are fighting back

March 2021

  • A woman in wellingtons walking along a fallen tree trunk,in woodland.

    Brief letters
    How to slow down in a fast-moving world

  • A new £50 note featuring Alan Turing, the scientist best known for his codebreaking work during the second world war, has been unveiled by the&nbsp;Bank of England&nbsp;and will go into circulation on 23 June, the date of his birth.

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    'It captures so much of Turing's work': Bank of England unveils new £50 note – video

  • Alan Turing banknote

    New £50 note featuring Alan Turing to enter circulation in June

  • Alan Turing

    GCHQ releases 'most difficult puzzle ever' in honour of Alan Turing

December 2020

  • The Enigma cipher machine was discovered on the seabed in Gelting Bay near Flensburg, Germany.

    German museum to restore Enigma machine found on seabed

    Desalination of code machine - which divers thought was ‘old typewriter’ - to take 12 months
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