A Google engineer claimed an AI software of theirs became sentient. Now there is debate on if these sentient machines have a place in the world. The long-standing sci-fi trope of robots gaining ...

One of the big news items last week was that a leading AI researcher, Blake Lemoine, had been suspended after going public that he believed that one of Google’s more advanced AIs had attained ...

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, for example. We reached the same conclusion via a different path, using a little mathematical formalism to burn off the fog of confusion. A chatbot is a function. Functions are not sentient. But ...

The long-standing sci-fi trope of robots gaining consciousness has sparked endless debates on whether machines can actually be sentient — that is, can they feel or perceive things? That question ...