There is a new review of books in Nature, Consciousness: what it is, where it comes from — and whether machines can have it, where the author wrote, “I consider the indicators as signifying the ...

The long-standing sci-fi trope of robots gaining consciousness has sparked endless debates on whether machines can actually be sentient — that is, can they feel or perceive things? That question ...

Lots of justifications for meat eating here, including "it's a weed species" and "we've bred it for factory farming purposes". The comment about sapience rather than sentience is germane. The ...

Computer scientists need to grapple with the possibility they will accidentally create sentient artificial intelligence (AI) — and to plan for those systems’ welfare, a new study argues. The report ...

The age of artificial intelligence has begun, and it brings plenty of new anxieties. A lot of effort and money are being devoted to ensuring that AI will do only what humans want. But what we should ...

Football's offseason is when we ask ourselves the real questions. Here's how you can nail down the answer to that one - first, define the universe. Is it space and beyond, merely the perimeter of your ...

Artificial intelligence research has accelerated in recent years, and people are interacting with AI more frequently. In-home AI assistants and self-driving cars were once things out of science ...

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio has issued a stark warning to global leaders: humans must be prepared to "pull the plug" on advanced ...