Silicon Valley has reached a strange new frontier silently. For ages, the competition between Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and ...

The question "can computers think" is something many people are taking very seriously. A philosophy professor believes we ...

Chats with AI bots have convinced evolutionary biologist but most experts say he is being misled by mimicry ...

The company, which has repeatedly emphasized its belief that AI could one day be conscious, wants to have its communion wafer ...

As far back as 1980, the American philosopher John Searle distinguished between strong and weak AI. Weak AIs are merely useful machines or programs that help us solve problems, whereas strong AIs ...

Artificial intelligence has surged in use over the last few years. These computer systems that can perform supposedly human-like tasks such as reasoning, learning, and problem-solving have been ...

The debate over AI consciousness is back. Mustafa Suleyman, a leading AI executive, recently said that “seemingly conscious AI” is on the horizon. These are systems that, through ongoing enhancements ...

Microsoft AI’s CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, recently introduced the term Seemingly Conscious AI (SCAI), and it has attracted wide attention. SCAI describes systems that act so much like humans you could ...

Nirvanic, says Gildert, is focused on "bridging the gap between AI and consciousness, by building systems that harness quantum mechanics to simulate conscious-like behavior. It's not about creating ...

Dawkins appears to have gone from atheist to AI-theist: perhaps he doesn’t view AI as God, but he certainly seems to see it as God-like ...