Last week, a Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, was suspended when he claimed that a Google chatbot called LaMDA (language model for dialogue applications) had become sentient, or capable of feeling.

Dr. Tom McClelland argues that there is no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious, and that this uncertainty may never ...

DJ: Yes I’m hopeful, but sentience isn’t the only thing that matters. Agency and cognition also matter for how people see animals. All of these dimensions of living (and perhaps some non-living) ...

A philosopher at the University of Cambridge says there’s no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious—and that may remain ...

There’s always some truth in fiction, and now is about the time to get a step ahead of sci-fi dystopias and determine what the risk in machine sentience can be for humans. Although people have long ...

Artificial intelligence has progressed so rapidly that even some of the scientists responsible for many key developments are troubled by the pace of change. Earlier this year, more than 300 ...

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ChatGPT and similar large language models can produce compelling, humanlike answers to an endless array of questions – from queries about the best Italian restaurant in town to explaining competing ...

Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, prompting both excitement and concern about its potential capabilities. Roundtable anchor, Rob Nelson, discussed these issues with Todd Ruoff, CEO of ...

Why is it wrong to enslave or torture other humans, or take their property, or discriminate against them? That these actions are wrong, almost no one disputes. But why are they wrong? For an answer, ...