In rethinking whether AI is sentient, we are asking bigger questions about cognition, human-machine interaction and even our ...

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

That same gift of creation, once a symbol of our uniqueness, has now brought us into a new age of invention unlike any before ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

In his first-year seminar dubbed “Could a Robot Ever Be Conscious?” Professor Richard Huskey guides students to discuss theories of consciousness. Through a variety of fields ranging from neuroscience ...

Dr. Karl Friston is a distinguished computational psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and pioneer of modern neuroimaging and, now, AI. He is a leading expert on intelligence, natural as well as artificial.

Consciousness remains one of the most unresolved questions in science. Some researchers argue it emerges naturally from ...

We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains translates into thoughts, sensations, and feelings. But an ...

We should take AI risks seriously, but doing so requires conceptual clarity, says Prof Virginia Dignum. Plus letters from John Robinson and Eric Skidmore The concern expressed by Yoshua Bengio that ...

In the often strange world of AI research, some people are exploring whether the machines should be able to unionize. Earlier this month, Anthropic said it gave its Claude chatbot the ability to ...