Human-like behaviours can make it difficult to judge robots’ true level of engagement.Credit: Johannes Simon/Getty Science fiction has long entertained...
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The pursuit of robot consciousness may be humankind’s next moonshot. But it comes with a slurry of difficult questions. Source...
In June 2022, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine became convinced that the AI program he’d been working on—LaMDA—had developed...
SAN FRANCISCO — Google fired one of its engineers, Blake Lemoine, on Friday, more than a month after he raised...
A new discovery from Tel Aviv University may provide a key to a great scientific enigma: How does the awake...
In the world's largest study on psychedelics and the brain, a team of researchers have shown how drug-induced changes in...
In 2022 we will see brain organoids displaying dynamics that bear comparison with the complex activity patterns indicative of consciousness...
The first edition of Blacks & Whites was released more than 50 years ago, in 1970, but has since disappeared....
Consciousness remains one of the brain's biggest mysteries. We know very little about how it emerges from activity within the...