More importantly, it learns how to play Mario through trial and error. Much like it will later figure out how to kill humans!

Morgan Freeman and three other actors will star alongside Johnny Depp in 'Transcendence', in which Depp plays a supercomputer with a human's consciousness.

Johnny Depp will play a supercomputer imbued with human consciousness in 'Transcendence'. Emily Blunt, Rooney Mara, or Rebecca Hall will play his wife.

The "Civilization" games are infamous for being sinkholes where large portions of your life mysteriously vanish into.

Finally, our dream of a computer that acts aloof and urinates on everything is about to be realized.

[via]When I posted the video of two chatbots arguing and declaring their status as a unicorn, I thought we were still a long way off from a chatbot which could trick a large number of people into thinking it's human, thereby passing the "Turing Test" developed by awesome dude you should know Alan Turing.

The 2011 Loebner Prize Competition in Artificial Intelligence is taking place in a couple months, with prizes being awarded to chat programs able to convince two or more judges that they're talking to one of the human contestants.

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