Tech companies are constantly hyping the capabilities of their ever-improving artificial intelligence. But Google was quick to shut down claims that one of its programs had advanced so much that it ...

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 ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. In a new essay penned in Newsweek, Blake Lemonie, the former Google engineer that claimed Google's Large Language Model (LLM), the Language Model for ...

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 ...

To be blunt, a lot of AI discourse is one part science and one part science fiction. We hear claims that AI can help accountants be more efficient and productive by allowing firms to scale services ...

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 ...