Do animals have sentience? Do they have a point of view? Can they look out at the blue sky, the flowers, and perceive the objects around them? Can they feel pleasure or pain? Many agree that mammals ...

As will become apparent from the following discussion the debate over animal sentience has, like a growing number of present-day issues, become rather polarized. A case in point was the recent annual ...

In the future we may encounter or create minds equal to our own, smarter, or somewhere in the gap between human and animal.

Can artificial intelligence become conscious? This question, once confined to science fiction, now occupies a central place ...

The capacity for subjective experience, or sentience, is a defining feature of consciousness. An organism is considered sentient if “there is something it is like to be that organism.” 1 In his 2024 ...

Sentience in nonhuman animals (animals) is a "hot" topic receiving attention from a wide range of researchers with different interests and agendas. For the purpose of this essay and as I've done ...

As of today, artificial intelligence can write a good-enough term paper, diagnose a patient better than many doctors can, ace a standardized test, and create an award-winning piece of digital art. It ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - AI chatbot company Replika, which offers customers bespoke avatars that talk and listen to them, says it receives a handful of messages almost every day from users who ...

The generative AI revolution has seen more leaps forward than missteps—but one clear stumble was the sycophantic smothering of OpenAI’s 4o large language model (LLM), which the ChatGPT maker ...