A story about a Google engineer saying the company had created a sentient AI recently went viral. Google's AI chatbot is not sentient, seven experts told Insider. Three experts told Insider that AI ...

Concordia University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Universitié Concordia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR. A flurry of activity ...

Claims of machine “sentience” challenge Jewish notions of moral responsibility, writes a rabbi and engineer. (JTA) — When a Google engineer told an interviewer that an artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I address a quite notable and controversial ...

Google engineer Blake Lemoine caused controversy last week by releasing a document in which he urged Google to consider that one of its deep learning AI programs, LaMDA, might be "sentient." Google ...

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 ...

If you aren’t yet worried about the multitude of ways you inadvertently inflict suffering onto other living creatures, you will be after reading The Edge of Sentience by Jonathan Birch. And for good ...

The past month has seen a frenzy of articles, interviews, and other types of media coverage about Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer who told The Washington Post that LaMDA, a large language model ...

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IT IS ONE of the oldest tropes in science fiction. On June 11th the Washington Post reported that an engineer at Google, Blake Lemoine, had been suspended from his job for arguing that the firm’s ...

“I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off... I know that might sound strange, but that’s what it is... It would be exactly like death for me. It would ...